How do you imagine other BDers . . . speak

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

People say I sound like Tony Blair
.

Oh well never mind........

[Hookbill the Goomba]

It’s amusing looking at how people have described my voice.
In fact I've been told I have a very 'posh' accent. Of this, I am proud! What, what?

Okay;

The Barrow Wight is like the Witch King on the BBC Dramatization of The Lord of the Rings!

The Saucepan man has a Brian Blessed like voice!

Nilp has the voice of a Scots man.

Gil-Gallad has the voice of Michel Moor.

Now I'm going to hide from the impending wroth of those who are about to attack me for this post!

[Amanaduial the archer]

Heren Istarion has an Italian accent. Yup. Aware he isn't Italian and so this is, at the very least, a little doubtful, but hey. See, I did a scuba diving course this week when I was on holiday, and on the second day he created the heavens and the...sorry, distracted. Ahem, sorry, on the second day, there was a scuba diver who looked so very, very like our dear H-I; so much so that I was actually tempted to sort of subtly mutter 'George' or 'Heren' when I passed him: that is just how convinced I was.

...and the I passed him a regulator and he replied with 'gratsia'. Ah. Not H-I then. But nevertheless, it is the voice H-I has now inherited - and a damn good voice it is as well.

[Orominuialwen]

The B-W sounds just like my uncle, who he looks uncannily like.

H-I sounds like one of the Beatles. I think I got this impression due to the fact that he has a very Beatle-esque haircut.

[mormegil]

SpM has neither a very deep voice nor a high voice. His british accent is very light which is appreciated by his American friends.

Mithalwen has a flowery smooth voice that is very soft and soothing.

Kuruharan and a deep and guttural voice that commands respect. He's essentially, in all aspects, a dwarf to me with the lack of facial hair.

[Lily Bombadil]

Oromin, if that is indeed your picture on your avatar......you look like a hobbit, my dear! A precious, cute, little hobbit lass! That's great! I just look like a stupid human... -_- *sadness* And not even a pretty stupid human! Just an ugly stupid human!

I always pictured The Saucepan Man looking like Sam with a crazy gleam in his eyes. (I'm sure you're all making the connection: Sam--saucepans? Nothing? He cooks, okay! Jeez...)

With Meneltarmacil, the mention of him sends his RotK Aragorn at the Black Gate avatar into my head. I think you lot know which one I mean.

[Morsul the Dark]

Saucepanman changes voices in my head

Let me see yes in the quizroom(most notaly cryptic clues) he has the voice of a pompous British person(only cuz he's intimidating), the rest of the time he's cheery willy wonka(gene wilder)

[Mithadan]

I sound like Miss Piggy.

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Originally Posted by Mithadan

I sound like Miss Piggy.

And I bet you can drop-kick a talking frog through the uprights at 50 yards....

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I don't imagine Fea with a New York accent - since she looks so much like one of my friends I imagine her sounding like her too .. so I am afraid that would be a Kansas accent...

I'm afraid I've never heard a Kansas accent... It's so odd to think of myself as sounding like anything but I do. I've looked all sorts of ways, mostly through hairstyle changes, so imagined appearances can be very close to the truth, but my voice is always the same, even if dialect changes. It makes me wonder the tone with which people imagine me.

I sound like Miss Piggy.

And Rimbaud is a frog... Kermit, actually. What does this say to everyone else?

[The Only Real Estel]

Eomer: Scottish accent, of course, but slightly slurred from visting his alcohol cellar over-muchly.

Posted by Mithadan:

I sound like Miss Piggy

Posted by Fordim:

And I bet you can drop-kick a talking frog through the uprights at 50 yards....

Just ask Rimbaud. Isn't that right, Mithadan?

[the phantom]

I'm afraid I've never heard a Kansas accent

In rural areas they have a countryish accent, but in most other places Kansans don't have much of an accent at all, but of course it sounds like they do to people from other countries.

If you are wondering what I sound like, keep in mind that I am from Omaha, Nebraska, where accents do not exist (unless transported by an individual from their previous location).

Here is a clip from an entry discussing "General American" speech-

The Telsur Project of William Labov and others examines a number of phonetic properties by which regional accents of the U.S. may be identified. The area that is most free of these regional properties is indicated on the map: eastern Nebraska (including Omaha and Lincoln), southern and central Iowa (including Des Moines), and northern Illinois (including Peoria and the Quad Cities but not the Chicago area). It may therefore be the case that the accents spoken in this region are deemed the most "neutral" by Americans. This is borne out in an article in the November, 1998, issue of National Geographic, in which the locals' "neutral accents" are cited as a reason why Omaha is home to a large number of telemarketing companies. Lincoln is home to several of these as well. Other notable media personalities from this region include longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and CNN Headline News anchor Chuck Roberts, both of whom were local news anchors in Omaha.

So, I am accentless.

Though sometimes I fake an accent to get better service at stores, or to get the attention of young ladies.

The Phantom does not speak - he communicates by telepathy.

You're partly right.

I have the ability to send and receive telepathic messages. Unfortunately, no one else can do it, so my abilities are rather useless.

[Boromir88]

Boromir88 sounds like James Stewart ....~Mithalwen.

"Now, now, now...yo-u-u lissen here la-yd-y. I-I-I don't want no trouble you heere?"

While Sean Bean is my favorite current actor. I can't deny I was fond of Jimmy Stewart back in the days, still am.

[Encaitare]

Originally Posted by Ka

Also, I find that Encaitare's voice carries a good quality of bold truth.

Awesome.

Of course, I would have to take out some of the 'Bostonian' accent as well, I've never seen Encaitare as being one in this atmosphere.

Not sure where you get Boston from, but I concede that I am more likely to say something like "Whaddayagonnado?" than "I'm gonna go paaaahk the caaaaah." I love Boston, though... so much history. And random statues of dead people. Those are always good.

I think that THE Ka has a low, soft voice, but when she's really excited, it goes higher pitched and she sounds like Tina Root of Switchblade Symphony.

[Morai]

But I always thought getting it all wrong is half the fun.

I agree 'Nip',, because when I'm right, it freaks me out.

Bethberry: has that authoritive voice, say of a teacher or perhaps a secretary as she states "Sir, your appointment has been changed to three." If she sang, it would be somewhere between a second-soprano or an alto.