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Being a Midwesterner, I can't really pronounce on this one way or the other, but thought the accents sounded pretty good on the whole, though of course we don't really know what they were *intended* to be . Sean Astin did seem to slip into an American accent rather often (especially if he was shouting) but since Sam is a bit of a comic servant, why shouldn't he have an amusing (American) accent? Aragorn sounded a little Midwestern in a few of the early scenes as well; again, though, I don't think it damages the movie too much, since these characters come from all over their world and it's believable that their accents would vary among themselves (unlike, say, the dreadful "Man In The Iron Mask" which I got dragged to over many protests and where the accents were Irish, English, French and blatant Californian - all in a group of people who allegedly grew up within a 20 mile radius of each other and speak the same language).