[Armetiel]

Okay, this is from the Silm.

maybe it'll help

C is ALWAYS pronouced K, so Celeborn is KELEBORN not CELEBORN

CH is Always the CH as in the scotch "loch" or german "buch but NEVER as in the English "church" examples of names with it are Carcharoth and Erchamion

DH is always th as in "THEN" but NOT "THIN" examples in Maedhros, Aredhel, Haudh-en-Arwen (so Mae-TH-ros ex.)

G is ALWAYS as in "GET"thus Region would not be like our region, nor Eregion, and Ginglith is like to our "BeGIN" no "gin"

double consonants are LONG, thus Yavanna is the same N sound in UnNamed, or PenKnife, NOT unaimed, or Penny


VOWELS

AI sounds like eye, thus Edain is is like the english DINE not Dane

AU is like OW in town, so Aule is pronound like English OWL and the first syllable of SAURON is like the english word SOUR not SORE

EI as in Teiglin sounds like the english "grey"

IE, should NOT be like the english "piece" but with I and E seperate Ni-enna not Neena (hence I pronounce Tolkien TOL-KEE-EN, but perhaps that's wrong since he didn't write his own last name [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )

UI such as in Uinen sounds like the english "ruin"

AE as in Aegnor, Nirnaeth, and OE as in Noegyth, Loeg, are both combinations of the individual vowels but May be pronounced ae as in "ai" and oe as in the english "toy"

EA and OE are Not run together but two seperate syllables. they are written as ëo, or ëa..unless the E is a capital and then the acent falls on the Second vowel as in Eönwë. the accent is used just to show that they are pronounced seperate, and the accent at the end of Eonwe shows that the final e is pronouced (as it ALWAYS is in elvish language (Most of Tolkien's names are Elvish)

ER, IR, UR before a consonant as in Nerdanel, Cirdan, Gurthan, or at the end of a word as in Ainur, should NOT be pronounced as in "Fern, fir, fur" but as "air, eer, oor" So NAIR-Anel, GOOR-than, Cirdan = KEER-Dan , Ainur= EYE-NOOR

E=is always pronounced in middle and end of words.

ú= oo so Húrin is HOOrin not Hyoorin

hope this helps [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]