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"L represents more or less the sound of English initial l, as in let. It was, however, to some degree "palatalized" between e, i and a consonant, or finally after e, i. (The Eldar would probably have transcribed English bell, fill as beol fiol.) "
"For vowels the letters i, e, a, o, u are used, and (in Sindarin only) y. As far as can be determined the sounds represented by these letters (other than y) were of normal kind, though doubtless many local varieties escape detection. That is, the sounds were approximately those represented by i, e, a, o, h in English machine, were, father, for, brute, irrespective of quantity." (всё - из LotR, App. E).
Звучание L зависело от позиции; E, как и в английском, - нечто среднее между [э] и [jэ].
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