The "working-class" accents really bothered my friend. She's very politically correct (at least she tries to be), and found the use of the cockney accent to be really discriminatory. And I guess you could look at it that way, but I guess you could always think that since the orcs were meant to be this horrible species, PJ wanted them shown to be lower than the other creatures of Middle Earth. So the accent was a decent way of showing that the orcs/uruk-hais were not as sophisticated as the other folk. Maybe it was unnecessary, but if you were to show the differance, how would you have done so??
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