Did no one seriously tell Tim Curry that Valorum is pronounced “Vuh-LOR-um,” and not “VAL-or-um”?
In interviews with George Lucas he pronounces Hoth “Hothe” with a long O. So that means everyone else in the world is wrong, right?
Lucas has always wanted actors to pronounce names and places how they think they should be, so as to give an impression of regional dialects/accents which would more than likely exist across a galaxy. Hence the whole H-AH-N/H-AR-N thing with Lando.