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***Mister Underhill*** · 01-06-2004, 01:23 AM

I liked hearing the spoken Elvish. I have to confess that when I'm reading and hit a passage of Elvish, my eye tends to wander down the page until it starts seeing English again. I've never had much natural facility with language -- sadly -- and the speech of the Eldar is no exception. It was a treat to hear the sounds and cadences of it without having to sweat out some mangled rendition by flipping back and forth to the pronunciation guide in Appendix E. One thing struck me odd, though -- Aragorn and Arwen speak a lot of Elvish in their scenes, but other Elf-Elf scenes were in English -- notably Elrond and Galadriel's <I>ósanwe</I> and (more jarringly) Elrond and Arwen's scenes in TTT and RotK. <P>I wasn't a big fan of Pippin's song, but perhaps that commentary is better left to <A HREF="http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=002627#000013" TARGET=_blank>a more appropriate thread</A>.

01-06-2004, 01:23 AM	#26
*Mister Underhill* Dread Horseman Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Behind you! Posts: 2,744	I liked hearing the spoken Elvish. I have to confess that when I'm reading and hit a passage of Elvish, my eye tends to wander down the page until it starts seeing English again. I've never had much natural facility with language -- sadly -- and the speech of the Eldar is no exception. It was a treat to hear the sounds and cadences of it without having to sweat out some mangled rendition by flipping back and forth to the pronunciation guide in Appendix E. One thing struck me odd, though -- Aragorn and Arwen speak a lot of Elvish in their scenes, but other Elf-Elf scenes were in English -- notably Elrond and Galadriel's <I>ósanwe</I> and (more jarringly) Elrond and Arwen's scenes in TTT and RotK. <P>I wasn't a big fan of Pippin's song, but perhaps that commentary is better left to <A HREF="http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=002627#000013" TARGET=_blank>a more appropriate thread</A>.