Lolth or Lloth

[Tarangil]

:\ This has bugged me since day one.

Back during the Vault of the Drow days it was Lolth, but with RA Salvatores use of the name Lloth it rolls off of the tongue better. An old handbook on the drow in the 2E days explained that it was a dialect difference specific with Menzoberranzan, but after reading the War of the Spider queen series, they reverted to the old clumsy name.

I was curious to what others thought about the dialect, and which one they use.

 

[runtime]

:\ This has bugged me since day one.

Back during the Vault of the Drow days it was Lolth, but with RA Salvatores use of the name Lloth it rolls off of the tongue better. An old handbook on the drow in the 2E days explained that it was a dialect difference specific with Menzoberranzan, but after reading the War of the Spider queen series, they reverted to the old clumsy name.

I was curious to what others thought about the dialect, and which one they use.

I remember reading the "dialect" explanation, but that just seems like "ret-con".

Google reports 20,900 hits for "Lloth" and 35,400 hits for "Lolth", but <a href="http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=lolth&word2=lloth">GoogleFight.com</a> reports 54,700 hits for "Lolth" and 57,500 hits for "Lloth".

 

[demiurge1138]

Lolth. That's the original way. That's the best way. "Lloth" came out of a pronounciation error.

Demiurge out.

 

[Shemeska]

I use Lolth, both because I've seen it used more, and because there's less confusion with it when I'm using 'loth as an abbreviation for yugoloth.

However I tend the slur Lolth enough so that it probably sounds indistinguishable from Lloth.

 

[John Cooper]

I had heard it wasn't a pronunciation error, but rather the fact that for whatever reason, R. A. Salvatore wasn't allowed to use the name "Lolth" in his books, so he came up with a neat solution to bypass the limitation and still make it recognizable to the fans.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

I think Lloth sounds more elven.

 

[Tarangil]

I had heard it wasn't a pronunciation error, but rather the fact that for whatever reason, R. A. Salvatore wasn't allowed to use the name "Lolth" in his books, so he came up with a neat solution to bypass the limitation and still make it recognizable to the fans.

Heh, heh, I bet he's allowed to use it now.

 

[Sejs]

I'm more disposed to the 'Lloth' version. The other one automatically makes me think of the verbalization of the popular internet acronym.


Lolth - the happy spider goddess! Sister to Roflmaur, the riotously funny drow god of magic.

 

[devilbat]

I voted Llolth, but I pronounce it Lloth.

 

[trancejeremy]

Llolth