So how do you pronounce 'dweomer'?

[thalmin]

I've been playing for 20-some years, and I've always pronounced it
in-cor-RECT-ly.
(Actually, I've always avoided pronouncing it.)

 

[Felix]

I thought it was supposed to sound like
Dwimmer (rhymes with Don Zimmer)...

Yesno?

 

[tarchon]

Like "dwimmer" or "dwemmer."

 

[Buttercup]

You know how they pronounce Eomer in the LotR movies? I would rhyme dweomer with that. The eo vowel combination in Anglo-Saxon was pronounced sort of like this: AY-oh, but run together sort of fast.

Though by Chaucer's time "dwimmer" would have been the more common pronunciation.

And I just have to take this opportunity to say that dweomer is a totally cool word.

 

[Mirth]

dway-o-mer

I think I'm right, too

 

[CRGreathouse]

[UPDATE 2001-10-01] Tolkein uses 'Dwimmerlaik' as a contemptuous title for the lord of the Nazgul. This appears to be a way of saying 'necromancer', given gedwimer = sorcery and lic = corpse.

I think in Tolkien's use it's supposed to mean "animate dead", actually... which works with the roots you give.

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

You know how they pronounce Eomer in the LotR movies? I would rhyme dweomer with that. The eo vowel combination in Anglo-Saxon was pronounced sort of like this: AY-oh, but run together sort of fast.

Though by Chaucer's time "dwimmer" would have been the more common pronunciation.

And I just have to take this opportunity to say that dweomer is a totally cool word.

Though I've only skimmed this thread, and can't be sure that the answer I liked the most in the thread I started about this sometime last year is here, I think that Buttercup's reply is pretty much the way I like to say it.

To be honest, it's not something I commonly use in game, but I like her take on it, and it's usually the way I think I have pronounced it.

 

[Orius]

I thought it was supposed to sound like
Dwimmer (rhymes with Don Zimmer)...

I believe the D&D FAQ on the WotC website states that as well.

 

[Pyrex]

I always thought the 'e' was silent:
dw-OH-mer

 

[Mercule]

Wish I had a citation for this, but I did run across an entry for it in a large dictionary a few years back. The pronounciation given was:

DWEE mer

The 'o' is silent.