Posted: June 13, 1999 at 18:09:05: by RSS
If a requirement for British accents is not in line with what Tolkien envisioned, a smattering of random accents isn't either. Arbitrarily assigning accents is just going to make this a bad movie. Mixing in a wooden American or German or Chinese or Indian or Albanian or Croation accent when trying to read some of the archaic English will just take away from the beauty of the English which Tolkien wrote. The Lord of the Rings is much more than an escapist fantasy tale. It's a literary masterpiece of the English language. To alter the language would be a crime, I feel.
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