Accents in LOTR was Re: accents schmaccents (was Kidman & Paltrow d accents)

[Ali <Ali@zymurgy.org>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "chanteuse thalia chaunacy" 
<thalia at a...> wrote:

>>> That makes one an *excellent* actor. *Good* actors can falter at 
> My vote for noteriety per a perpetually heinous accent--Viggo 
Mortenson in LOTR. Yeah, the man's hot and a did a fine acting job--
but I wish they'd spent a little less time teaching him Elvish and 
little more time teaching him the accent he was supposed to be 
sporting.<<< 

His accent didn't bother me at all. As a ranger Aragorn would have 
travelled far and wide, and some slips in his accent would be 
allowable. I actually felt that his accent was quite good. OTOH, 
Sam's accent really annoyed me. It seemed to swing between a kind of 
yokel/ country bumpkin accent and what I assume is his native 
American accent. It also seemed worse in TT than FoTR.

Ali