Lolth or Lloth

[Warbringer]

You realise that in gaelic "Lloth" is pronounced "Cloth"..

Run for your lives the drow spider queen is looking for minions to "weave" her evil plots....

 

[Staffan]

Out of those two, definitely Lolth. But given that I run Eberron, there is no drow spider-godess around there, which makes things a lot better.

 

[diaglo]

You realise that in gaelic "Lloth" is pronounced "Cloth"..

Run for your lives the drow spider queen is looking for minions to "weave" her evil plots....

bah, Gary was playing with a new form of Roleplaying Latin. you take the first letter of the word and move it to the end and add a lisp. and then scramble the other letters.

so Lolth in real world American is Toll.

Gary was just inspired by Hemingway. who was inspired by John Donne "For whom the bell tolls. it tolls for thee."

No Man is an Island...

and also the same one Simon & Garfunkel used for the song. I am a Rock.

which is obviously used for the Yochlol in the module

 

[Roadkill101]

Lolth, it's the original name and the name I first came across and never saw to use any different.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Lolth. That's what they called her when she was introduced, that's what she was called when my group first found out about these crazy new elves, that's what she was called when we kicked her butt all over the Demonweb (well, actually around the inside of her robo-spider, but that's a memory I prefer to block out).

 

[Borlon]

Lolth - the happy spider goddess! Sister to Roflmaur, the riotously funny drow god of magic.

I laugh every time I read this.

 

[kirinke]

This makes perfect sense. It is obviously BOTH. Just like Athena and Minerva are the same goddess or Artemis and Diana. Same diety, different locations, different variants of the name.

Oh, and just for the record, the correct spelling of her name on the Realm of Earth is Hillary Clinton.

Naa. Hillary Clinton isn't all that evil. Her name doesn't send shivers down the spine of the sane and the insane.

The only true, correct avatar of Lolth in the Realm of Earth is..... Martha Stewart.

 

[Thanee]

Lolth, I havn't read any R.A.Salvatore books.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Hypersmurf]

Isn't there a Llano estacado in Texas ? Doesn't sound that welsh to me

Yeah, careful with that 'only the Welsh', or the Lladró people might set their Attack Llamas on you!

-Hyp.

 

[Yalius]

Hmmm. Alternate pronunciations make me think I might have to switch to Lloth. In woleaian, my wife's native language, a "ll" is pronounced as a short "r" with a weak glottal stop at the end, and the "th" at the end is pronounced as "t" with another glottal stop. So "Lloth" would be pronounced "R.aat.", with a very short "r" sound at the beginning. I kind of like that.