09-30-2001, 06:04 PM | #1 |
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pronunciation
do you say the name
lay go las or lee go las and where would the stress be?
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09-30-2001, 07:06 PM | #2 |
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Well I'm far from an expert (I freely admit I'm a fan of the erroneous "SOAR on") but I say "LEH go las."
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09-30-2001, 08:17 PM | #3 |
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I think that's right Ben, as long as your 'a' in 'las' is like the sound heard in tawny and not as the a in apple.
But I myself am not entirely certain as to the stress rules regarding the letter 'o'. 'O' as I understand it is always pronounced like itself in the Eldarin languages, but it is not considered to be a long vowel unless the accent mark is above it. Not that the Elves themselves used the accent mark above a character to indicate that a vowel was long, it's simply a device of transcription chosen by Tolkien. According to Quenya and Sindarin rules the accent always fell on the syllable before the last, where that syllable contained a diphthong, a long vowel, or a vowel followed by two or more consonants.* If that syllable did not have any of these the stress fell on the syllable before it, the third from the end. Thus the dilemma in 'Legolas', (for me, I am not a linguist). I guess though that that 'o' regardless of its sound would not be considered long. I'd have to ask a Tolkienian linguist. But I guess you would be right Ben, it's 'LEH-goh-laws'. * In words that contained only two syllables, the stress always fell on the first.
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10-12-2001, 10:32 AM | #4 |
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I don't know how Tolkien thought it should be but I spell it /legoulas/ with the accent on the final syllable. It may be totally wrong because, as you may see, I'm not from England or USA, but from Lithuania, where it is spelled /legolasas/ with the stress on the third syllable. But I hope that it is right.
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