Re: this is a good thread, Carly daughter of Johnwaynehobbit

[halfwise]

yeah, you Brit types have to stop picking on accents for middle-earth: shouldn't be british anyway. he sounded consistent to me.

[Pettytyrant101]

And hes got a new accent by the end (and several inbetween!)

[CC12 35]

aragorn is still hot as an old man and a stone tomb wtf

[halfwise]

Maybe it's my Yank's tin ear, but I don't hear a shift that's all that jarring.

[halfwise]

But you have to understand, to us there's the Queen's english, there's cockney, and there's the Scottish/Irish (we can't hear the difference between the two unless asked to pay attention). Anything else just sounds like another fookin' Limey, we can't tell.

[halfwise]

Or I should say upper class, Monty Python, and Celtic.

[Pettytyrant101]

[Mrs Figg]

But you have to understand, to us there's the Queen's english, there's cockney, and there's the Scottish/Irish (we can't hear the difference between the two unless asked to pay attention). Anything else just sounds like another fookin' Limey, we can't tell.

well speaking as a fookin Limey I have to say that Viggo was brilliant, and had a damn fine accent.

[RA]

I thought Viggo Mortensein did a really good job.
No complaints from me

[halfwise]

Where you from, RA?

[RA]

Oh I'm certainly no judge of english accents - Californian.
I just really liked his performance as Aragorn; can't say the same for the reluctant King bit though.

[Eldorion]

What wrong with Persbrandt using his own accent? Why would Beorn be english- not exatly an english sounding name.

Neither is Aragorn.

[Pettytyrant101]

I never said he was. Merely that it was not consitant throughout the films, or often in the same film, or even scene.

[Norc]

i am with petty, i hear his accent especially in fellowship, his nordic is showing haha..

[Norc]

seriolsy, i am not even a native speaker, yet i am pretty good with accents/dialects in english

[Norc]

maybe not in placing them, but definintely hear the difference.

[Norc]

And hes got a new accent by the end (and several inbetween!)

as i said, espeically in fellowship, though unlike Petty, i don't have a problem with it. we're talking about a man growing up talking elvish. srsly.

[Mrs Figg]

its his Elven accent

[Eldorion]

Alright, fair enough, the accent-changing is pretty terrible.

[Norc]

give him a break, he's danish!

[Mrs Figg]

he speaks about ten languages, is international, and English is not his native language, as Norc said, give him a break. It was hardly noticeable, and I am English so I would notice a weird accent. I really think its extreme and unecessary nitpicking. probably on the par of grass length.

[azriel]

What I enjoy about Viggo is,that he is quietly spoken, his voice is soft. I take more interest in guys if they DONT come across bold & bolshi & "know-it-all" & if a guy keeps swearing non stop, thats a turn off, Viggo sounds nice, easy on the ear as well as the eye, (oh yeah!)

[Pettytyrant101]

I really think its extreme and unecessary nitpicking.- Mrs Figg


I am not nitpicking. Its never really bothered me, more amused me.
Just pointing out his accent changes every other word as some folk didnt seem it believe it, but it does.
Rewriting Aragorns motivations and attitude, that's a problem worth being crabbit about however.

[Pettytyrant101]

Viggo sounds nice, easy on the ear as well as the eye,- Azriel

Yeah give a woman a rough looking, hair unbrushed, stubbly, unkempt guy caked in dirt in a film and they swoon alll over him - but in real life? Not so good a look for pulling!

[Ringdrotten]

Viggo sounds nice, easy on the ear as well as the eye,- Azriel

Yeah give a woman a rough looking, hair unbrushed, stubbly, unkempt guy caked in dirt in a film and they swoon alll over him - but in real life? Not so good a look for pulling!