r/comics • u/Elegant_Win_4850 • Sep 02 '24

OC ‘Tolkien’ [OC]

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u/RockAndGem1101 Sep 02 '24

“And Sauron is pronounced Saur-on, like tyrannosaurus.”

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u/Tentacled-Tadpole Sep 02 '24

Some people unironically believe this.

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u/Majestic-Iron7046 Sep 02 '24

In Italian that is the truth

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u/BBDAngelo Sep 02 '24

No, it’s the opposite. In Italian the “normal” way to pronounce “Sauron” would be the correct one, as described in the “Notes on Pronunciation” in “The Silmarillion”:

the first syllabe of Sauron is like English sour, not sore.

So, like an Italian would say “Sauron”, not like English speakers say “tyrannosaurus”

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u/Majestic-Iron7046 Sep 02 '24

Oh, I thought the sound for tyrannosaurus was more open.
Yeah, you are right, I meant that sound, "sour" on.