Character name pronunciations

My take on this all --
Ray - Ghar (Rhaegar)
Tar - Gare - Ee - In
Day - Ner - Ees (Daenerys)
Air - Ree - ah (arya)
Lie - anne - ah (Lyanna)
Rick - kon (Rikkon)
Bare - wrath - ea - on (Baratheon)
Mar - jay - er - ree (Margaery)
Sir - sea (Cersei)
Day- Vose (Davos)
Joe - jen (Jojen)
Mear - rah (Meera)
Bran (all bran bar)
Air - Rin (arryn)
kate - lin (Caitlyn)
Hoe - ster (Hoster)
Breen (Brienne)
Hoe - Door (Hodor)
Jay - me (Jaime)
Toe - men (Tommen)
Mir - cell - ah (Myrcella)
Tie - win (Tywin)
Tear - ree - on (Tyrion)
Peter (petyr)
Mel - Es - And - Dra (Melisandra)(or w/e)
Rhall - or (R'hllor)
K - Whore - In (Qhorin)
Bay - lish (Baelish)
May - ster (Maester)
- no more off the top of my head
*Rhaegar*
 
TK-421 said:
Katherine Kerr has tried to develop some interesting character names and pronunciations for places in her Deverry series. Check it out, although it does have a pronunciation guide...quote]
Finally! Someone who knows who Katherine Kerr is.
Personally, I love difficult names. They're more fun. Ar-zoh-zah Soth-ee Lor-ez-oh-haz!
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I agree with RhaegarTarg with almost all the names
the exceptions are

Cersei- 'Ser-say'

Brienne- 'Bri- enne'

Jaime- 'Jay-m'

Qhorin- 'Kh- whore-in'
 
Cersei - Ser-seh-I

Jaime - like J'aime but with a hard J

Tyrion - Ti-ri-on

Myrcella - Mer-sell-a

Petyr - Pet-tirh

Catelyn - Cat-te-lin. Her name is not Caitlin, it just looks like it.
 
One name I've seen in the thread a few times that I never thought would be very much discussed is Qhorin Halfhand. Well I pronounce the QH as a K sound so it becomes the real-world name Corin. :)

Also I pronounce Cersei SER-SAY because the 'ei' ending is like Sensei.
 
I treated the name as if there was a brief breathiness after the K sound in Qhorin.

(I'm with you on Cersei, Ghost.)
 
i agree with Cersei as SER-SAY

and Qhorin like Corin... but like you Ursa, i add the breathiness for the "h"

Jaime - JAY-ME
Brienne - BREE-ENNE
Aryu - AH-REE-UH
R'hlorr - RUH-LORE (very breathy on the RUH and very rolled Rs at start and finish)
Mircella - MEER-CHELL-UH
Hodor - HOE-DOOR
Tyrion - Tir-ee-on

i think the one i pronounce most differently to others who have posted here is
Targaryen, which i pronounce TAR-JARR-EE-EN (JARR as in Jarred)
 
If you think about it, when Arya changes her name to Arry in ACOK she is probably just taking the 'a' sound off of her name. Otherwise they would write it Harry. That's why I pronounce it:

ARRY-UH

rather than:

AH-REE-UH
 
I've always pronounced Arya's name that way. Arry-uh or Ar-ee-uh both seem the same to me. Ar-ya sounds kinda silly.

Also Cersei - Ser-say (ei like ay sound)
Jaime - High-May because to me it fits the setting, Jay-me sounds too modern/gringo(?) for my tastes and never really fit in for me.
R'hllor I like to pronounce Rrr-lore, hard to really type it out right but roll the R into the lore sound.
Maester I like to read as My-ster.
Hodor - Haw-door
Jon Snow - Jonny Turbo
 
I go for ah-ree-a (aria) myself.

Too late to change anything now. Even if GRRM issues a pronunciation guide, my way of pronouncing the name in my head has become too set to change.
 
Lol "frontal lobotomy".

I wasn't trying to diss anyone or anything I just thought AR-YA sounded funny like "how are ya AR-YA". And yea, the way I pronounce the name's and even imagine the characters faces is too hard pressed in my mind for better or worse. I have a crappy image for every time I read about Theon (ugly kid I knew in high school) and couldn't get rid of it. But there is the flipside to that. I used to pronounce Hermione in HP Her-me-un for the first 3 books but then I heard the "right" way and changed it. And I used to imagine Cersei as looking too old but then wound up replacing her face in my mind with Tilda Swinton (lol).
 
Don't worry I didn't take offence. I was crying about something completely unrelated.

*hides the wall that has 'SAPIENTI IS A STUPID HEAD' spraypainted on it*

So... Um, you have a nice name...
 
Are you sure you weren't talking about me with reference to the frontal lobotomy? Because I'll have you know that I've had it done to myself many times before! So there! :p
 
I was just talking with my brother about this today, mainly about Arya. I mentioned Ned, the conversation turned to her, only instead of saying it "Are-ee-ya" the way I say it, he said "Uh-ry-uh."
 
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