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In the original Foreword to The Lord of the Rings -- the better Foreword in my opinion (even if Tolkien himself disagreed) -- JRRT included a preliminary note, if brief, on pronunciation, including C = K even before e, for example.
Of couse you have to remember that for later in the story . . . but still