Posted: January 07, 1999 at 08:29:19: by Fingolfin
I read in The Express newspaper yesterday, in John McEntee's page that MGM or whoever is behind the Lord of the Rings film wants the character's to speak with American Accents, otherwise it won't appeal to the American audience. This surely has to be rather silly. I can't imagine old gaffer gamgee talking with a New York accent. And anyway Tolkien meant for the Lord of the Rings to be in sort of Olde English, and some of the character's are surely meant to be english e.g. The Men of Rohan and Hobbits themselves. Also Peter Jackson seems opposed to the idea. I'm english myself and don't mean any offence to any american if your reading this but you cannot have all characters speaking with american accents, would it appeal to any americans if it did not have any american accents in.
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