How Do You Pronounce Treant?

[X-Calator]

I've never heard it said.

 

[BOZ]

i say "tree-ant", but then i am stupid. i have heard people call them "tree-ent" or even "trent", so they sound more like the LOTR names for Ent.

 

[Filby]

I just say 'treent', but that's just me.

 

[X-Calator]

i say "tree-ant", but then i am stupid.

Well then, I must be stupid too, cause I say it the exact same way. Strange, the word looks like it's just one syllable, but something inside makes me think otherwise.

This also brings up another question... was the treant just an invention to basically rip-off the ents or does it have its own grounds? I mean, why didn't they just call them ents or include the ents as related to treants? Copyright difficulties? I don't see how, considering the orcs were pulled straight out of LOTR and every fantasy mythos uses them...

 

[BOZ]

maybe for the same trouble TSR got into from calling halflings "hobbits" originally...

 

[Tonguez]

Well then, I must be stupid too, cause I say it the exact same way. Strange, the word looks like it's just one syllable, but something inside makes me think otherwise.

This also brings up another question... was the treant just an invention to basically rip-off the ents or does it have its own grounds? I mean, why didn't they just call them ents or include the ents as related to treants? Copyright difficulties? I don't see how, considering the orcs were pulled straight out of LOTR and every fantasy mythos uses them...

I'd guess it was Copyright - can't use Hobbit, can't use Ent

The name Orc predates Tolkien (found in the Legends of Charlemagnes Paladins as an Irish Sea Monster) - Tolkien just gave the modern association with Hobgoblins

Oh and I'm in the Tree-ent brigade (just because Tree-ant sounds silly, um not that Tree-ent doesn't sound silly too...)

 

[BOZ]

it's only because i tend to pronounce things the way they look, and well the word does have an e followed by an a.

 

[X-Calator]

Oh and I'm in the Tree-ent brigade (just because Tree-ant sounds silly, um not that Tree-ent doesn't sound silly too...)

Actually, my pronunciation is more like "tree-ent" than "tree-ant" now that I think about it. I said it was tree-ant before because I wasn't stressing the "a" enough to make it distinguishable.

 

[Sonikal]

I call them 'tall-tree-like-people-with-leaves-instead-of-hair-and-a-fear-of-fire', seriously though I pronounce it 'tree-ent'

 

[der_kluge]

TREE-ent