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![]() I noticed that Pipin has a sort of scottish accent. Sam has a strong accent, and Frodo has a soft accent. (I think Elijah Wood is terrible at English accents)
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He certainly is bad at rolling his Elvish 'r's.
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Yeah, I noticed that. Pippin is Scots, Merry and Sam are West Country, Frodo is posh. Where are all the Irish and Welsh in Middle-Earth??
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In Middle-Wales and Middle-Ireland.
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![]() pippins is sooo big, in the xtended scene where the hobbits are singing,you cant understan wut hes saying!
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There were different regions of the Shire.
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Not very big ones; it was a small country.
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Accents
Aragorn also has a bit of an accent
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If you have ever seen the version of "Oliver Twist" where Elijah Wood plays the Dodger, you will thank your lucky stars that his accent improved from then to now. I don't know accents (to me English is English, Irish is Irish, Scottish is Scottish, and Welsh is Welsh and sometimes I even mix some up >_<), but believe me... Elijah Wood's has improved times one hundred at least.
Of course... like my band director says, one hundred times zero is still zero... :-X Di
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Wow. I didn't know such different accents could evolve, or whatever, in the space of the Shire! Of course, this is coming from a person that everyone keeps saying has a slight English accent. And used to have a lisp. And has NEVER LEFT AUSTRALIA.
And Aragorn's accent - probably came from wandering all over the place and picking up a bit of accent here, a bit there, etc. Lanelf.
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Though he grew up in Rivendell.
Yes, but England is an island; while I'm no expert, I would think that being cut off from other cultures would cause "subcultures" to grow up in the country.
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I really liked the way they did the accents. Note that the Elves all had pretty much the same accent: their immortality presumably meaning that language did not fragment in the same way. However, the hobbits, being much more settled and "of the earth", all have different accents. Similarly, those men of Numenorean descent have similar accent to the Elves. It might also account for Frodo's "elvish air" that he spoke like them.
Maybe they could've given the Rohirrim a different way of speaking (Eomer: "G'day mate. Got any stubbies in that eskie?) What accent should they have given them? cheers d. |
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i dunno bout everyone elses accent but they deliberately had Pippin keep his accent... ill have to post later coz a mate has my dvd but they said somewhere in the Directors commentary about it.
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Billy Boyd is the most eligible man in scotland. I'm going to go to uni there.
![]() Why do they say morrrrrrrrdorrrrrrrrr? I've been informed that most americans find it easier to do an irish accent than a scottish, welsh or english, why? I never imagined arwen would speak elvish with an irish accent.
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There is actually an explanation of Middle Earth accents in the Appendices, and I think it's pretty cool that they represented this in the movies too. In this case it's a "Good one, PJ!" from me. The Shire was sort of an equivalent to England, and their speech is said in LotR to sound strange, different from the Westron of other peoples.
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Still sounds funny to me.
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