"Proper Elvish" - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Galin · 11-02-2008, 07:35 PM

Yes, Dwarvish too, though the corpus is relatively limited. We have a few words of actual Westron as well, for example. Elvish, Westron and etc were not written with Roman characters obviously, but the transcriptions try to represent the sounds.

Sometimes the tengwar help illuminate a pronunciation, as Panthael written with Elvish characters in the King's Letter helps show that the pronunciation is pant-hael rather than including the -th- sound as in English thing for instance.

11-02-2008, 07:35 PM	#4
Galin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,036	Yes, Dwarvish too, though the corpus is relatively limited. We have a few words of actual Westron as well, for example. Elvish, Westron and etc were not written with Roman characters obviously, but the transcriptions try to represent the sounds. Sometimes the tengwar help illuminate a pronunciation, as Panthael written with Elvish characters in the King's Letter helps show that the pronunciation is pant-hael rather than including the -th- sound as in English thing for instance.