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**The Saucepan Man** · 02-05-2003, 08:20 AM

So Pippin's descended from Bullroarer McTook, is he? But, I'm still not convinced that the Shire is big enough to warrant such a marked regional variation in accents. <P>As for the Orcs, well I'm not a great fan of political correctness, so I don't think that's any reason not to have Orcs speaking in a "cockney" accent (actually, speaking as a South Londoner, it sounds like more of a Saaaafff Laaandun drawl to me). Anyway, the point has been made that not all Orcs in the films speak like this, so I don't see a problem. Also, doesn't the way that the dialogue for some of the Orcs (Shagrat and Gorbag?) is written in the books suggest this kind of an accent?

02-05-2003, 08:20 AM	#23
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	So Pippin's descended from Bullroarer McTook, is he? But, I'm still not convinced that the Shire is big enough to warrant such a marked regional variation in accents. <P>As for the Orcs, well I'm not a great fan of political correctness, so I don't think that's any reason not to have Orcs speaking in a "cockney" accent (actually, speaking as a South Londoner, it sounds like more of a Saaaafff Laaandun drawl to me). Anyway, the point has been made that not all Orcs in the films speak like this, so I don't see a problem. Also, doesn't the way that the dialogue for some of the Orcs (Shagrat and Gorbag?) is written in the books suggest this kind of an accent? __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!