Kestrel wrote:

> one of the things I
> liked about Lee's approach to this is that he insisted the names be
> pronounced as Tolkein set them out, arguing, as I do -- that if the author
> has given express instructions on how the names sound, calling them
> something else is wrong, not just Reader's Right. I get all touchy about my
> character names because I've gone through pains (of some sort) to have them
> sound a certain way, or fit a type of mythology, so gosh darn it if they
> tell me what it sounds like -- that's how it should be. If they don't, it's
> reader's choice.

I absolutely agree, and was pleased to see the accent marks from
the books being pronounced in the movies. But Edoras has no
accent over the E, as Eomer does (how does one create that
accented capital E, anyway?); so it really should be pronounced
eh-DOR-us, not ED-or-as. 

Lissa ThingsThatGoThroughMyHeadWhenICan'tSleep Wingling

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