Didn't think they'd do this guy just yet: CTHULhU

**Peter Peeker** · March 17th, 2006, 12:53 PM

I call him Ted [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

**Andyman** · March 17th, 2006, 01:25 PM

I haven't a clue about that monster dude either. What's his story?

**Peter Peeker** · March 17th, 2006, 01:39 PM

google up some H.P.Lovecraft.
there's a site out there where you can read most of his stuff.

quick bit:
he's a nasty ol' god who's gonna drive us all bonkers, then eat us.

**Andyman** · March 17th, 2006, 01:41 PM

Originally posted by Peeker:
google up some H.P.Lovecraft.
there's a site out there where you can read most of his stuff.

quick bit:
he's a nasty ol' god who's gonna drive us all bonkers, then eat us.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Google? That sounds like work. [img]wink.gif[/img]

**Darkest Angel** · March 17th, 2006, 10:27 PM

*drives everyone bonkers, then eats them*

...*spits Peeks back out when he seems to be enjoying it a little too much*

**Guyver** · March 17th, 2006, 11:13 PM

Oddly, much debate surrounds the pronunciation of ?Cthulhu.? The pronunciation used by most is perpetuated by the ?Call of Cthulhu? roleplaying game by Chaosium, Inc., whose books have ?Can you say kuh-THOO-loo?? printed on their backs. Several Lovecraftian scholars prefer to pronounce it ?Cloo-loo? based on references in Lovecraft?s revision tales. I choose to take a middle ground and aspirate both hs, with a result similar to ?kt?hoo-lhoo.? Here are a couple of excerpts from Lovecraft?s letters where he discusses the pronunciation of this word:

The actual sound?as nearly as human organs could imitate it or human letters record it?may be taken as something like Khl?l?-hloo, with the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, since the h represents the guttural thickness. The second syllable is not very well rendered?the l sound being unrepresented. (to Duane Rimel, 23 July 1934)

The best approximation one can make is to grunt, bark, or cough the imperfectly-formed syllables Cluh-Luh with the tip of the tongue firmly affixed to the roof of the mouth. (to Willis Conover, 29 August 1936)

In ?Lovecraft in Providence,? Donald Wandrei claims that Lovecraft pronounced it ?K-L?tl-L?tl,? yet in the above-mentioned letter to Duane Rimel, Lovecraft claims that Wandrei?s comments on the pronunciation of the term are ?largely fictitious.? Robert H. Barlow, in On Lovecraft and Life, claimed that Lovecraft pronounced it ?Koot-u-lew.? One can?t help but think that Lovecraft was toying with his friends, since everyone?s pronunciations differ, including his own. Ultimately, does it really matter?