About the accents...

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

I think that Elijah Wood's accent was very good - much, much better than his cockney in Oliver. He did standard British, and he carried it out throughout the movie. Sean Astin's Bristish was much different from Wood's (I wonder if it's because he's supposed to be a servant) and he slipped out of it on occasion.<BR>They did well, though. I really had no problems with any of the accents (and I have had major problems with accents in past movies - especially a Knight's Tale).<BR>As for learning accents... from what I have learned British was the easiest, Southern is next, followed by Irish and Scottish, and Austrialian is actually the hardest because it is so close to British. <BR>It is actually harder for the English to learn American accents, we've been working with an English girl at school with it for a while & she can say "Better" (bedder) now!!!!