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Topic: Re: The Mythology for England Myth (was Re: Nice, but....)    Reply to: msg 3567
Posted: June 13, 1999 at 23:00:41: by RSS
"We cannot accurately represent the accents of the speakers of his languages because we don't have any idea of how they would have sounded."

Which is why the director should at least be faithful to the original language which Tolkien wrote for his characters. Like it or not, Americans don't use the diction and idiom that Tolkien writes.



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