The JRR Tolkien Pronunciation Poll

[aramis erak]

Drow rhymes with bow. Everyone knows this.

So, welsh pronunciations dro-uh and Bo-uh?

 

[mach1.9pants]

Tolky-en whoops, I've only been reading his books since I was 8 and multiple times per year since

 

[amethal]

Tolky-en whoops, I've only been reading his books since I was 8 and multiple times per year since

That's how I pronounce it as well, but goodness knows how I ended up with it - it's not really something that makes sense if you look at the actual letters in his name, but I can't do anything about it after all these years.

 

[aramis erak]

Let's not start a row about it.

Tis more like a column...

I'm in camp Toll-keen. Because that's what I heard used in an interview of the professor...