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Originally Posted by Lalwendë
It annoyed me enough that all four of the main Hobbits sounded different - especially as The Shire just isn't big enough to allow for that.
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See the comments by dialect coach Andrew Jack on the rationale used in the accents in
The Lord of the Rings film at
http://www.andrewjack.com/lord-of-th...-rationale.htm .
They generally used a Gloucestershire accent, giving to Sam a rural form of the accent and to Frodo and Bilbo one closer to RP. Merry’s accent was between the two. Pippin was given a Scottish accent because it was found that having the actor Billy Boyd do a laid-back Gloucestershire accent just didn’t work for him so they rationalized his natural Scottish accent as a Tookland accent.
What four accents did you hear?