kriskowal/tengwarjs

Silent E shouldn't cause R to be Rómen instead of Óre

dreamingfifi opened this issue · 0 comments

Words that end in RE where the E is silent, the R should be Óre instead of Rómen, since the silent E doesn't count as a vowel.

Tolkien spoke an R-drop accent, meaning that the R vanished most of the time, but was retained before vowel sounds.

Here's a good video explaining it (with bonus cute old people) https://youtu.be/hWjcoajXRVg

Thus, "are" and "were" would be:

ore:a:i-below
vala;ore:e:i-below