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Old 01-10-2009, 07:18 AM   #11
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If it was supposed to pronounce as K, why didn't Christopher change it to Khîn instead of Hîn? C was always pronounced as K in Elvish, but ch was a phone of its own.

I remember reading somewhere that at the end of the word ch pronounces as in German, and at the beginning rather just as H.
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