They say "Thu'um" a lot.

Thery pronounce it Thoooom, though. At least they got Tamri-el right this time :spotted owl:

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Lady-who-always-mispronounces-everything-but-thinks-her-version-is-better

*sigh* To this day I've never properly figured out how apostrophes work in pronunciation. I've always sort of thought they work as a hard sign, like ъ, but I'm guessing apostrophes in words have different actions depending on the language in question.

How do you pronounce Thu'um? I always did the whole Thoooooom thing. Could it be Thoo-oom with a break in the middle or Thuh-uhm? Regardless, I'm just pleased as pie that they used a lore-correct term ingame.

I don't post as much as most of the other lore forum guys and girls here, but I felt for some reason I had to add my two cents to this.


Simply put, Skyrim feels like coming home again. It feels like I'm walking back into, and rediscovering the world that I fell in love with in Redguard and Morrowind, instead of the aberrant system shock that was Oblivion. And after playing it for...far more than is likely healthy (and having barely scratched the surface), I simply must say that this game is, as Lady Neravar said, perhaps the first "true" TES game in the sense of paying attention to all the metaphysics we think about and talk about here on the Lore forum. Redguard started the feel of the universe and defined it, Morrowind expanded on it, and this seems to have embraced all of the obscurity that we love.


Furthermore, the attention to detail and sense of place is astounding. The callbacks to other games, and other provinces, and the history and politics... Oblivion felt strangely insular, like Cyrodiil was all that there was in the Empire; and this feels the exact opposite. This game is PACKED TO THE BRIM with lore, almost as if it's trying to make up for the decade of almost nothing new that we endured.

I think this game should give us enough material to keep this forum running for another decade or more. :tes:

I do Thuh-uhm. While apostrophes do have different actions in different languages, I default to reading them as a mark denoting that the letters should be pronounced separately. Hence the two Us get read individually, rather than one long oo sound.

I don't post as much as most of the other lore forum guys and girls here, but I felt for some reason I had to add my two cents to this.


Simply put, Skyrim feels like coming home again. It feels like I'm walking back into, and rediscovering the world that I fell in love with in Redguard and Morrowind, instead of the aberrant system shock that was Oblivion. And after playing it for...far more than is likely healthy (and having barely scratched the surface), I simply must say that this game is, as Lady Neravar said, perhaps the first "true" TES game in the sense of paying attention to all the metaphysics we think about and talk about here on the Lore forum. Redguard started the feel of the universe and defined it, Morrowind expanded on it, and this seems to have embraced all of the obscurity that we love.


Furthermore, the attention to detail and sense of place is astounding. The callbacks to other games, and other provinces, and the history and politics... Oblivion felt strangely insular, like Cyrodiil was all that there was in the Empire; and this feels the exact opposite. This game is PACKED TO THE BRIM with lore, almost as if it's trying to make up for the decade of almost nothing new that we endured.

I think this game should give us enough material to keep this forum running for another decade or more. :tes:

I do Thuh-uhm. While apostrophes do have different actions in different languages, I default to reading them as a mark denoting that the letters should be pronounced separately. Hence the two Us get read individually, rather than one long oo sound.