: I'm in need of a pronunciation guide for many of the names, places, etc. Tolkien references. Yes, I know there are many many linguistic/phonetic type systems out there -- with rather arcane symbols and physiological-oral guides ("No, no, more of a lateral liquid, not a bilabial medio-dental fricative..."). I studied linguistics in college, and even *I* find these references unhelpful.

Julian Bradford the moderator of the TolkLang list has placed recordings of spoken elvish (pronounced the way it should be) on the Web at: http://www2.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/pronguide.html

Perhaps you could get the actors to listen to these first, to give them a feel for the pronunciation.

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Elvish Pronunciation