1| Pronounciation
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AI fine, light | |
AE | fine, light |
AU | now |
AW | now |
EI | play, say |
OE | koi, toy |
UI | ruin |
CH | Never as in 'church', always as in 'loch' or 'bach' from Scots/German |
DH | The voiced 'th' sound as in 'these', or 'those' (not 'thing' or 'thief') |
F | Beginning of word; soft as in 'father'. Anywhere else in the word; a 'v' as in 'verge' |
HW | The older British English pronunciation of 'white', or with a slight breath before the 'w' as if the letters WH in 'white' were reversed |
I | As mentioned above, it becomes a 'y' as in 'yacht' if before a vowel or starting a word |
LH | The Welsh LL sound (as in 'llan'). For an approximation, pronounce this as if the letters were reversed and written HL |
NG | At the beginning or end of a word, as in the English 'ring' or 'sing', otherwise as in 'finger' |
RH | At the beginning of words only: This is what's known as a voiceless trilled R (for a rough guide pronounce it as if the H and trilled R were reversed, it should sound quite breathy with a slight trill) |
W | At the end of a word you have two options for pronunciation. The Elves pronounced this like a W in 'woe', 'wight', but this is very difficult for a Man to replicate as you have to be exceptionally careful not to add in a 'schwa' (the vowel sound of the ER in 'butter', 'brother', or the AR in 'wizard'). |
ER | As in the word 'fair' |
As you should have noticed, the vowels have variants with accents: A / Á /  - these denote the length of the vowel, going from shortest to longest, left to right - an  should have approximately twice the length of an A.
Number of syllables in the word | Where the stress falls |
Two | On the first syllable (EL-rond, AR-wen) |
Three or more | On the penultimate (second to last) syllable (i-SIL-dur, peri-ANN-ath) |
long vowels: A, U, Y, any accented vowel, vowel/consonant combination or diphthong
Short vowels: E, I, O
Third to last syllable stress (antepenultimate):
This is used when the penultimate syllable contains a short vowel or any other vowel followed by just one consonant or consonant sound (TH is a single sound).
Attested examples:
Denethor (DE-ne-thor). NE is the penultimate syllable, but it contains the short vowel E, and so the stress falls back onto DE.
Boromir (BO-ro-mir). RO is the penultimate syllable, but it contains the short vowel O, and so again, the stress falls back onto BO instead.
Galadriel (ga-LAD-ri-el). RI is the penultimate syllable, but although it is followed by the vowel E, they are not a diphthong as they are two separate words so the I in RI remains short - thus the stress must switch to the syllable before it.
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AI fine, light | |
AE | fine, light |
AU | now |
AW | now |
EI | play, say |
OE | koi, toy |
UI | ruin |
CH | Never as in 'church', always as in 'loch' or 'bach' from Scots/German |
DH | The voiced 'th' sound as in 'these', or 'those' (not 'thing' or 'thief') |
F | Beginning of word; soft as in 'father'. Anywhere else in the word; a 'v' as in 'verge' |
HW | The older British English pronunciation of 'white', or with a slight breath before the 'w' as if the letters WH in 'white' were reversed |
I | As mentioned above, it becomes a 'y' as in 'yacht' if before a vowel or starting a word |
LH | The Welsh LL sound (as in 'llan'). For an approximation, pronounce this as if the letters were reversed and written HL |
NG | At the beginning or end of a word, as in the English 'ring' or 'sing', otherwise as in 'finger' |
RH | At the beginning of words only: This is what's known as a voiceless trilled R (for a rough guide pronounce it as if the H and trilled R were reversed, it should sound quite breathy with a slight trill) |
W | At the end of a word you have two options for pronunciation. The Elves pronounced this like a W in 'woe', 'wight', but this is very difficult for a Man to replicate as you have to be exceptionally careful not to add in a 'schwa' (the vowel sound of the ER in 'butter', 'brother', or the AR in 'wizard'). |
ER | As in the word 'fair' |
As you should have noticed, the vowels have variants with accents: A / Á /  - these denote the length of the vowel, going from shortest to longest, left to right - an  should have approximately twice the length of an A.
Number of syllables in the word | Where the stress falls |
Two | On the first syllable (EL-rond, AR-wen) |
Three or more | On the penultimate (second to last) syllable (i-SIL-dur, peri-ANN-ath) |
long vowels: A, U, Y, any accented vowel, vowel/consonant combination or diphthong
Short vowels: E, I, O
Third to last syllable stress (antepenultimate):
This is used when the penultimate syllable contains a short vowel or any other vowel followed by just one consonant or consonant sound (TH is a single sound).
Attested examples:
Denethor (DE-ne-thor). NE is the penultimate syllable, but it contains the short vowel E, and so the stress falls back onto DE.
Boromir (BO-ro-mir). RO is the penultimate syllable, but it contains the short vowel O, and so again, the stress falls back onto BO instead.
Galadriel (ga-LAD-ri-el). RI is the penultimate syllable, but although it is followed by the vowel E, they are not a diphthong as they are two separate words so the I in RI remains short - thus the stress must switch to the syllable before it.