AI has the sound of English eye; thus the second syllable of Edain is like English dine, not Dane.🔗
AU has the value of English ow in town; thus the first syllable of Aulë is like English owl, and the first syllable of Sauron is like English sour,notsore.🔗
EI as in Teiglin has the sound of English grey.🔗
IE should not be pronounced as in English piece,but with both the vowels i and e sounded, and run together; thus Ni-enna, not 'Neena'.🔗
UI as in Uinen has the sound of English ruin.🔗
AE as in Aegnor, Nirnaeth, and OE as in Noegyth, Loeg, are combinations of the individual vowels, a-e, o-e, but ae may be pronounced in the same way as ai, and oe as in English toy🔗
EA and EO are not run together, but constitute two syllables; these combinations are written ea and eo(or, when they begin names, Eä and Eo: Eärendil, Eönwë).🔗
U in names like Húrin, Túrin, Túna should be pronounced oo; thus 'Toorin' not 'Tyoorin'.🔗
ER, IR, UR before a consonant (as in Nerdanel, Círdan, Gurthang) or at the end of a word (as in Ainur) should not be pronounced as in English fern, fir, fur, but as in English air, eer, oor.🔗
E at the end of words is always pronounced as a distinct vowel, and in this position is written ë.It is likewise always pronounced in the middle of words like Celeborn, Menegroth.🔗
A circumflex accent in stressed monosyllables in Sindarin denotes the particularly long vowel heard in such words (thus Hîn Húrin); but in Adûnaic (Númenórean) and Khuzdul (Dwarvish) names the circumflex is simply used to denote long vowels.🔗