return

1466 the return of the king
ruin; and au (aw) asinloud, how and not as in laud, haw.
There is nothing in English closely corresponding to ae, oe,
eu; ae and oe may be pronounced as ai, oi.
stress
The position of the ‘accent’ or stress is not marked, since in the
Eldarin languages concerned its place is determined by the form
of the word. In words of two syllables it falls in practically all
cases on the first syllable. In longer words it falls on the last
syllable but one, where that contains a long vowel, a diphthong,
or a vowel followed by two (or more) consonants. Where the
last syllable but one contains (as often) a short vowel followed
by only one (or no) consonant, the stress falls on the syllable
before it, the third from the end. Words of the last form are
favoured in the Eldarin languages, especially Quenya.
In the following examples the stressed vowel is marked by a
capital letter: isIldur, Orome, erEssëa, fËanor, ancAlima, elentÁri,
dEnethor, periAnnath, ecthElion, pelArgir, silIvren. Words of the
type elentÁri ‘star-queen’ seldom occur in Quenya where the
vowel is é, á, ó, unless (as in this case) they are compounds; they
are commoner with the vowels í, ú, asandÚne ‘sunset, west’.
They do not occur in Sindarin except in compounds. Note that
Sindarin dh, th, ch are single consonants and represent single
letters in the original scripts.
note
In names drawn from other languages than Eldarin the same
values for the letters are intended, where not specially described
above, except in the case of Dwarvish. In Dwarvish, which did
not possess the sounds represented above by th and ch (kh), th
and kh are aspirates, that is t or k followed by an h, more or less
as in backhand, outhouse.
Where z occurs the sound intended is that of English z. gh in
the Black Speech and Orkish represents a ‘back spirant’ (related
to g as dh to d): as in ghâsh and agh.
The ‘outer’ or Mannish names of the Dwarves have been
given Northern forms, but the letter-values are those described.