This tape is welcome here, at least to me.
Christopher Tolkien’s pronunciation of
Thengel (using International Phonetic Alphabet symbols) as
Then[
dʒ]
el where his father pronounced it as
The[
ŋɡ]
el stands out as an odd differing pronunciation. It is probably not an error by either of the Tolkiens but would indicate different theories of how the Old English name may have been pronounced, and possibly theories of how the name was pronounced in different dialects of Old English.
Old English grammars, at least those that I have seen, get vague in their rules for words which contain
ng. See
http://www.lotrplaza.com/archive7/fo...asp?TID=234771 for a discussion which in its later sections, towards the top, gets into Christopher Tolkien’s pronunciation. Another possible pronunciation is
The[
nj]
el. It is noted in the forum I have linked to that Tolkien preferred to pronounce the name
Hengest as something like
Hen[
dʒ]
est or
Hen[
j]
est where other systems of Old English pronunciation prefer
He[
ŋɡ]
est.