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Consonants are as in English, with these exceptions:

C is always hard as in cat.

G is always hard as in get.

DD is the voiced th as in breathe, but the voicing is considerably more pronounced than in English. It
is opposed to TH, the unvoiced sound as in breath. Note well: dd and th are always considered single
letters.

R is well and truly rolled.

RH is a voiceless R, approximately pronounced as if it were spelled hr. The distinction is a subtle one,
and in Eldidd tends to be increasingly ignored.

DW, GW, and TW are single sounds, as in twit, most of the time; but there are exceptions.

Y is never a consonant.

I before a vowel may be consonantal, particularly at the beginning of words and in the plural ending
-ion (pronounced yawn).

Doubled consonants are both sounded clearly. Note that DD and RR are considered single
consonants, as are the two тАШmтАЩsтАЩ in the name of the god Wmm.

Accent is generally on the penultimate syllable, but compound words and place names are often
exceptions to this rule.



On the whole, I have transcribed both Elvish and Bardek-ian names and words according to the
above system of orthography, which is quite adequate to the Bardekian, at least. As for Elvish, in a work
of this sort it would be both confusing and overly pedantic to use the full apparatus by which scholars try
to represent this most subtle and nuanced of tongues. To the average human ear, for instance, distinctions
such as those between A, A, and A are lost in the hearing. Why then should we try to distinguish them in
print? The reader should, however, remember that Elvish words are accented quite differently than
Deverrian and Bardekian ones. Since Elvish is an agglutinative language, the various components of a
name may receive stress according to their meaning rather than to their place in the pattern of syllables.
Canbaramelim, for instance, which is composed of the morphemes for rough + name marker + river, is
pronounced CAHN-BAHR-ah-MEH-lim.
 Prologue Winter, 1062



Every light casts a shadow. So does the dweomer. Somemen choose to stand in the light; others, in the darkness.
Beye always aware that where you stand is a matter of choice, and let not the shadow creep over you unawares . . .

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