[doug*platypus]

Well, my first reaction was "gee, you're awful picky for someone who can't even <I>spell</I> Uruk!" <P>I have to say that funny as they were, I didn't agree with the decision on the Cockney Orcs. You also raise a good point about consistency, Deiagorn. It was definitely an Uruk that we saw bemoaning the lack of meat in a Cockney accent (sorry if Cockney isn't the word I'm looking for, never unfortunately been to England), and also the guy who said meat was back on the menu was pretty working class as well.<P>Orcs in the books symbolise all that is wicked in human nature - love of destruction, complete disregard for nature, etcetera. PJ has put a slightly different slant on it and said "Orcs are the working class, and eeh ba gum they're disgusting!" Lord of the Rings never should have been a class war, but all of a sudden we have these highly educated Elves poncing about their mansions in fabulous clothes, while the working class Orcs are starving and being made to slave away for their masters (the factory owners Saruman and Sauron), all in terrible English. <P>It's like he wants people to fault Tolkien. I'm sure there's a few reviews out there that look on the class war in the movies unfavourably. If not they'll probably come out of the woodwork after TTT when Aragorn gets dolled up in his kingly armour and wipes them all off the face of Middle-Earth.<P>Or it could just all be a simple homage to Bert, Tom and William.