Re: aspirated m?

Benct Philip Jonsson scripsit:

> # In the transcription of Elvish Sindarin in The
> # Lord of the Rings ll is used in the manner of modern
> # Welsh for the medial voiceless l; as in mallorn <
> # malhorn < malþorn < malt �)B��gold' and orn -A�)B��tree-A�)B��.
It's very unlikely that when JRRT wrote the L.R. and its appendixes,
though, that he had any such pronunciation of "ll" in mind.

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