Treant pronunciation?

[Voadam]

I always thought it was pronounced "Tree ent" after the ents in Tolkien but I was typing it out the other day and noticed that was not how it is spelled.

Is it "Trent" or "Tree Ant"

How do you pronounce it?

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Tree-ENT

 

[Desdichado]

I'm going with the arboreal insect myself. That's how it's spelled anyway. Although the [a] often turns into more of a schwa, so the distinction between tree ent and tree ant is hard to spot.

 

[Wombat]

It's pronounced "Please don't sue us for stealing the Ents"

 

[derelictjay]

I'm going with those pesky little creatures that steal your food and bite you if you stand around to long in a field.

 

[Sir Elton]

I'm going with the arboreal insect myself. That's how it's spelled anyway. Although the [a] often turns into more of a schwa, so the distinction between tree ent and tree ant is hard to spot.

I'm actually with Joshua Dyal on this one. Arboreal insects all the way. ALthough what does it matter? Ents, Treants, treeherds; they are all the same monster. Just different games.

I like Wombat's answer though. "Please don't sue us even though we stole the Ents!"

 

[diaglo]

i call them "Sir or Ma'am"

 

[lukelightning]

I call 'em "timmmm-berrrrRRRRRRR!"

 

[Bladesong]

If you care, when TSR sent their pronounciation list out several years ago it was Tree - ent. I hear ki rin, chimera, drow, and lich butchered all the time as well. Call them what you will. If you are DM then everyone can pronounce them your way.

 

[Desdichado]

If you care, when TSR sent their pronounciation list out several years ago it was Tree - ent. I hear ki rin, chimera, drow, and lich butchered all the time as well. Call them what you will. If you are DM then everyone can pronounce them your way.

Quite right. I don't care about TSR's pronunciation list, as it turns out. If they had bothered to actually look the words up, that is the words they didn't make up, they might have caught the errors that crept through.