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Lucas Werkmeister
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According to the regular stress rules from Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings, all three of these words should be stressed on the penultimate (second) syllable, since that syllable is followed by two consonants; however, the way they are used in poems suggests they should actually be stressed on the antepenultimate (first) syllable (example: “in IMlaDRIS it DWELLS”). According to Concerning Stress Placement In Sindarin [1], this can be attributed to a hypothetical “muta cum liquida” rule like in Latin, where some syllables count as light even if they’re followed by two consonants, because both consonants belong to the following syllable (e.g. IM-la-dris instead of im-LAD-ris). However, the rule is apparently not applied systematically: according to [2], in another poem the word “nogothrim”, which is quite similar in structure to “Nargothrond”, is clearly stressed on the penultimate syllable. For this reason, we don’t try to define the “muta cum liquida” rule in sjn_rules (or qya_rules), but only add the three names Imladris, Menegroth and Nargothrond as exceptions to the sjn_list. [1]: https://menegroth.github.io/stress-in-sindarin.html [2]: https://mildred-of-midgard.dreamwidth.org/158375.html#comment-cmt49575
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// potential “muta cum liquida” rule:
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// the use of these words in poems suggests that they are stressed on the antepenultimate syllable,
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// rather than the penultimate one, even though the penultimate syllable is heavy;
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// see <https://menegroth.github.io/stress-in-sindarin.html> for details
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imladris $1 // Seek for the Sword that was broken, line 2
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menegroþ $1 // Lay of Leithian Recommenced, line 65
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nargoþrond $1 // The world was young, the mountains green, line 13
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