Kiradawea

Ki-ra-daw-ea.

Yeah I know, I'm boring.

Finally, someone else who pronounces X as S instead of Z!


Is it bad that I spotted you, Telperion, Nerwen, Ioreth, Nessa, Arafinwe, Lalaith (and possibly Linwe, though that's so obscure I'm not sure if it was a coincidence) almost at sight?

Actually, don't answer that.

/nerd

It's pronounced "JEN-ih-fer".

You're a waterfall?

Hee, I have to answer this because I probably pronounce it quite differently from a native English-speaker.

So for Havulma: 'Ha' like 'ho' in 'honey', 'vul' like 'wool' in 'woolly' and 'ma' like ... ehmm - 'ma' in the word 'ma'... Emphasis in the first syllable 'Ha'. Ha-wool-mah.

(And havu is a needle leaf of an evergreen tree in my native language.)

<3 Silmarillion. Aramel, is your name from the book too? I remember a character called Aranel, although it could just be a coincidence

Oh, and as for pronunciation: Ser is pronounced like 'sir', ella like in 'umbrella'. Ser-ella.

I agree whole-heartedly with this statement.

Since I know EVERYBODY messes this one up, I'll give you the easy one, the normal one, and the funky one I prefer.

Easy:
Key-all
Normal:
Key-all-car-kay-uh
Funky one that's the REAL version
Kyall-c'har-kay-uh.

c'har translates to Kuh-har pronounced really fast. Like C'thulu.

Edit: Oh, and for my fellow tolkien heads.

Nih-kah-tar

It's not terribly difficult.

There's two ways to pronounce it, although it's more infliction then anything else.

Mes-sarah

or

Mes-sawr-rah.

No, Aramel was made up randomly (about five years ago), from just before I read LOTR, though I later found out it meant "nobly loved" or some such in Sindarin, so it was more of a coincidence, and only later found out about the character called Aranel.

What was funniest was that "Aranel" meant princess, and referred to a man.


Thirded with the Silmarillion love. Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion fanfiction was what started me writing stories, so I have a special fondness for them.

Plus Noldor are cute, in an evil kinslaying sort of way.

Veyda is pretty simple. VAY-duh. Yeah.

The last name is tricky. It can be pronounced duh-IH-lee-CHEE or duh-ILL-uh-chee. I do the first. I think other family members do the second. *shrug*

When you have a d and an apostrophe, it isn't its own syllable.

...that makes no sense. What the hell purpose does the apostrophe serve?

The same as in "it's". It cuts out a letter. In this case, "e." Deillici is a pain to pronounce if it's four syllables which is what you're trying to do with it.

EDIT: ...in fact that's the purpose of all such apostrophes off the top of my head, what examples can you think of where you pronounce it as a whole seperate syllable? That's? Can't? It's not caan-nnt.

Yes, apostrophes can be used as a contraction, but I guess I was looking at it from a less literally English standpoint.

I was looking at it from a French standpoint, which is the only language I know to have d'whatever. What language uses ' not to remove a syllable, but to -add- a syllable? Do any?

In Guarani, Hawaiin, Tongan, Samoan, Tahitian, Chamorro, Tetum, Tupi, Mayan, and Klingon.

If you can't pronounce Synl correctly, you're a moron.

Galaphyrae.

However you want. I can't hear you when I'm reading. I change it at random, so you can, too!

gey-luh-feery (rhymes with weary)
gah-luh-fa-ray
gey-luh-fa-ray
gah-luh-feery
ga-laugh-ah-ray

Fun game!