I already knew he is able to brush off things thanks to their presence but that first chapter hit hard.

really digging feral drizzt runnin around barefoot like an animal

Drizzt Do’Urden

R.A. Salvatore in The Lone Drow

I have wondered how people pronounce different things in fantasy books since I started reading the genre. We all have the sounds in our heads, but our brain usually mumbles them just enough for us to know who we are reading about. We don't notice really, until we say it out loud. Drizzt is one such name. I find myself talking about him out loud a lot. How could one not?! In a foreword written by Bob Salvatore, he says how he created the dark elf out of nowhere and how he corrected his colleague for pronouncing it "Drizz-it", the first of many, many times. To be sure, I watched an interview with Bob talking about the Orc King, book one of Transitions. Sure enough, he says it as "Drist" with a little sharper of a s sound. You'd have to watch it to hear what I'm saying. To conclude my rant, I just think it incredibly baffling how intense people are about how to say this character's name (like I am). It is extremely hard for me to wrap my brain around why people make it a two syllable name, when it is not, and has been said by the author himself. Don't even get me started on Wheel of Time though!