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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
An interesting side issue to this question is whether Peter Jackson's movie would/could be recognised as an English icon, or whether it is only Tolkien's book which can be.
Did Jackson take the 'English' out of the Legendarium? If so, how so?
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Good question. I think that The Shire was quite English, myself. But it reminded me more of a Yorkshire Dales village than the Midlands/Southern village I had in mind. In the film it was more the village of a people who are too busy farming to have much time to tend to gardens, whereas I had in mind the more lush, 'chocolate box' type village idyll; the Yorkshire Dales village can be quite a tough environment.
I also still think that the films took away some of the images I had of the Elven lands, Rohan and Gondor. Rohan I still see as the sweeping downs countryside, Gondor as Cornish (stony, airy) and Rivendell as a Lakes/Scottish (yes, I know, Scottish is most definitely NOT English, but the Lakes are!
) community nestled between fells/mountains. And further to that, I often see Lothlorien as like one of the unusual sub tropical gardens we get on the West Coast, dark with towering trees and lush plants.
It's interesting though, that Jackson chose to have his actors speak in different British accents?