The Hobbit:
http://youtu.be/JTSoD4BBCJc
Re-watching the film the only character who pronounces Thorin Oakenshield's name is Gandalf
Interesting
Yeah, and they pronounce it TH-orin, like TH-ough, not T-horin like T-homas. So an entire generation will say my name wrong.
Quote from: Thorin on December 14, 2013, 08:59:32 PM
Yeah, and they pronounce it TH-orin, like TH-ough, not T-horin like T-homas. So an entire generation will say my name wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JTSoD4BBCJc#t=47s
Origin of the
Thorin name (in Middle Earth lore) = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorin_Oakenshield#Names_and_titles (
?orinn) -- see also the letter THORN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)) (in your side, ha ha)
edit: looks like you are the voice of dissent, sir...
Quote from: Wikipedia article THORN
The letter originated from the rune ᚦ in the Elder Fu?ark, and was called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs ("giant") in the Scandinavian rune poems. Its reconstructed Proto-Germanic name is Thurisaz.
It has the sound of either a voiceless dental fricative [θ], like th as in the English word thick, or a voiced dental fricative [?], like th as in the English word the...
PS: Make sure at least one of your kids start the whole cycle over again by naming a son
"Thrain" ;)