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Old 06-02-2025, 06:41 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by Boromir88 View Post
In FOTR, the scene where Gandalf goes to seek Saruman, Christopher Lee definitely pronounces it “Eye-zen-gard.” It sounds like the same pronunciation from Tolkien’s reading “The March of the Ents,” as Snowdog mentions.

I dislike that song “They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard,” and it’s been a while since I’ve watched TTT. I can’t remember how Orlando Bloom says it.
We watched the entire trilogy a week ago; the movies are 100% consistent on "Eye-zen-guard" (to within the limits of people's accents). Presumably, since the previous LotR movie couldn't decide between "Saruman" and "Aruman", they made a point of telling everyone the approved pronunciations for everything. That doesn't mean they were right, obviously.

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