Ring of Words and Smile

Tolken didn't pronounce it smagal, even though that's apparently the proper old english ation of it. If you listen to any of professor tolkin's recordings in the j r r Tolken audio collection, winkwink, which you should, i is going to make that really clear. You can hear him very clearly say, smega. So despite the fact that we tend to side with established old English pronunciations where we can, and where our mouths are physically capable of making said pronunciations,. We're going to go at tolkins' own pronunciation here and throughout the season, as we have done for many years already. That's right