How do you pronounce "Eladrin"?

[Slander]

Hussar/RW: eLAHdrin (assuming the "LAH" is the "a" sound in "lad" and not "law")

 

[mhensley]

Sounds like excedrin to me.

 

[Exquisite Dead Guy]

<Monty Python> It's spelled Eladrin, but it's pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove </Monty Python>

 

[withak]

<Monty Python> It's spelled Eladrin, but it's pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove </Monty Python>

I am shocked that it took 22 replies for someone to make this reference.

 

[vectner]

I pronounce it el-DAR-in as the Tolkein intended it to be.

 

[evilbob]

This is how I pronounce it as well.

Me too - like theredrobedwizard spelled it out.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Also note, that Wulf's breakup of the syllables would be extremely hard to pronounce. eh LAD rin would mean that the d and the r would not be pronounced together.

How do you pronounce MIDRIFF?

 

[Hella_Tellah]

What he said.

edit: essentially Aladdin with an extra "R"

Me too. And I'm from Washington State, so obviously I pronounce it the way WoTC does, which means I am excellent and right.

 

[Klaus]

What he said.

edit: essentially Aladdin with an extra "R"

Well, since in Portuguese that's pronounced "al-lah-DEEN"...

 

[Hella_Tellah]

Well, since in Portuguese that's pronounced "al-lah-DEEN"...

Ah, so in Yankee-talk, we'd say:
uh - butter
lad - ladder
in - sin

Which is to say that my Pacific Northwest accent turns eladrin into "uhlajrin" in English. In Spanish I pronounce eladrin as you do, with the stressed syllable at the end, but that's because Spanish has rules for pronunciation, rather than the nebulous guidelines of English.