In the UK there is a generic term for American/foreign actors making a hash of English accents: it's called 'doing a **** van Dyke' (from the god-awful 'gorblimey guv 'cockney chimney sweep he attempted in the otherwise delightful Mary Poppins)<BR>Now, I'm not saying that anyone in LotR was that bad at all, but there were a few D-van-D moments, and many of them came from Sean Astin. <BR>And yes, I think Merry should have been a bit more posh. Viggo's all-over-the-place accent wasn't a problem for me, as Aragorn was someone who had grown up and lived all over. <BR>But Orlando occasionally got a bit too posh, bless him. "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" he sounds just like a star turn in the Eton school play.
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