The first syllable of Éowyn sounds like "eh-oh," with the "oh" just barely pronounced.

Without the small "tsu" the first syllable would sound like the word "knee".

The familiar, beloved syllables sounded odd in the aristocrat's mouth.

The syllables sounded like gravel being shaken in a coarse sieve.

The single syllable, softly spoken, sounded as loud to me in all that silence as a gun shot.

The two syllables sounded almost affectionate.

The name is best transliterated as sah-DAAM, in which the stressed syllable should sound closer to "bomb."

"But they don't want you to do that in Washington," he said, making the last three syllables sound like dirty ones.

The syllable was doing its best to be toneless but sounded like the escape of a breath he'd tried to hold.

The syllables sounded in the man's ears as any human might have heard them, light desiccated sounds evoking thoughts of dead leaves swirling among dry bones.