[Mithalwen]

Although, I felt Dom Monaghan was the most convincing of the four hobbits .... I half hoped that Merry might have a slightly Welsh accent, because of Buckland representing the "celtic" fringe of the Shire. But I guess that to have Welsh and Scottish would be too much.

As for Viggo, I wondered if the strangeness of the accent was because he was allowing Danish influences in? But I didn't to much trouble with the multi-lingual multi-cultural Aragorn having a varying accent. I thought Liv was having to try quite hard with her British accent but I guessit was obviously a lot easier for Hugo Weaving who was raised here and Cate Blanchett who lives here........

But Sean Astin's was all over the place.....