Snow is coming.
So is Smaug, pronounced Smowg, or Smowwwg.
All these diphthongs [in the books] were falling diphthongs, that is stressed on the first element, and composed of the simple vowels run together. Thus ai, ei, oi, ui are intended to be pronounced respectively as the vowels in English rye (not ray), grey, boy, ruin: and au (aw) as in loud, how and not as in laud, haw. [Emphasis added]
-Appendix E of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
This is the last of my Christmas song purchases. My I-Pod Christmas song list is now 131 songs.
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