How do you imagine other BDers . . . speak

[The Only Real Estel]

Posted by Boro88:

And for some reason I think Estel would sound like Darth Vader.

How, err...interesting. I'll make it a point never to let you hear my voice so I don't disappoint you.

[Boromir88]

How, err...interesting. I'll make it a point never to let you hear my voice so I don't disappoint you.~Estel

As you can see I'm horrible at predicting things. Why I made a good Seer, I don't know . Hence, why I don't participate in the "How do you imagine other downers" thread because I am just awful.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

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

For example, if I BDers had an animal sound:

• Forthim would go 'Arf! Arf!'
• Kath would go 'Meow!'
• Lhuny-tunes would go 'Ngaw!' (Big difference from 'Meow!')
• Nuranar would go 'Boing!'
• Firefoot would go 'Neigh!'
• morm would go 'Ook!' (As always. )
• Menel and Gil-galad would go 'Roar!'

But that's just me!

[the phantom]

I can't believe I've never posted on this thread.

- Feanor of the Peredhil -

Fea's voice sounds pleasant for the most part, but has a slight grate to it that gives it an edge (which some consider to be annoying). She has just a twinge of a Northeastern accent.

There is also a vacant, ditzy, teeny-bopper tone that escapes when she gets excited or angry betraying the typical teenage girl that lies at her core- you know, the type that comes equipped with one of those special brains that is impervious to facts, logic, and comments of substance. Fea, however, is pretty good at keeping it a secret due to her time spent with her educated brothers. She has learned to imitate their intelligent sounding vocal mannerisms quite well.

Fea also tries her best to add a sexy, alluring component to her voice, but it completely falls flat. But rather than making her sound stupid, her failure is so pitiful it's actually cute, and so her tampering actually ends up generally having the desired result.



(you know I'm just teasing, m'dear, I'm sure your real voice is so magnificent that just hearing it brings about a state of nirvana)

- Mithalwen -

Mith speaks with the generic Sexy Brit accent (think Kate Beckinsale).

- The Saucepan Man -

SPM is the owner of a generic Silly Brit accent (think Monty Python).

- Davem -

Davem has the generic Stuffy Brit accent (think Giles, on Buffy), though when he gets a bit passionate about something I sometimes hear him as Tony Blair.

- Amanaduial the archer -

Aman has the generic Sexy Brit accent, with a bit of the generic Irrational Teenage Girl mixed in.

(pretty much every teenage girl on the Downs has a bit of that mixed in, just like pretty much every young guy has either the generic Dumb Jerk, Weirdo Dweeb, or Boring Smart Guy mixed into his voice)

- The Only Real Estel -

Since he's from the same part of the country as me and also shares a couple of my interests, TORE sounds a lot like me, only with overdone inflection for some reason.

- Kuruharan -

Kuru also sounds a bit like me, only he speaks more slowly and intelligibly because of a dash of generic Boring Smart Guy.

- Gil-Galad -

Gil sounds a tiny bit like me with some generic Weirdo Dweeb mixed in (which the girls just love, I am told). He is very prone to stuttering due to the fact that he usually doesn't know clearly where he's trying to go with his words but attempts to get there anyway.

- Tigerlily Gamgee -

Tig's voice is wonderfully warm and magically melodious, and is currently in the process of applying for "angelic" status.

(of course, I'm sort of cheating on her voice since I've actually heard it)

Ah yes, no need to tell me- I pegged every single one of you, didn't I?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Phantom, you delight me. You are so very wrong that it makes me laugh. But don't worry... it's endearing.

PS: if my fact-ignoring, logic-less whims weren't always right, I wouldn't trust them so much. So .

[Kath]

Question for Nilp: why meow?

Thing is now, that everytime I try to imagine the voice of anyone who has been a werewolf in a game that I have played with always has a really deep, slightly evil sounding voice in my head, except for Oromin who I couldn't believe to be wolvish even when I was a fellow wolf with her! To me her voice is still light and happy sounding (unless I have just read a post in which she is rather depressed).

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Kath

why meow?

Originally Posted by Fea

You are so very wrong that it makes me laugh

Originally Posted by B88

As you can see I'm horrible at predicting things.

Originally Posted by Real Estel

I'll make it a point never to let you hear my voice so I don't disappoint you.

Originally Posted by Aman

...not American, so I'm not sure what that would sound like....

Originally Posted by Fordo

Ah, my dear dear B88, you could not be more wrong....

After reading all these protestations, and recalling several memorable voice readings, I was going to suggest that we call tune into Yahoo voice chat or MSN voice clips to learn our real selves.

But then, after recently hearing someone, I came to the conclusion that Nilp is on to something.

Originally Posted by Nilp

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

Rather than having real people to hear and see, I wonder if the other half of the fun is imagining them.

Seriously, though,

Originally Posted by B88

Carlton the Doorman, I'm quite honored

I thought you might be. All that dark mystery and ominous authority.

Originally Posted by Aman

Good lord, Bethberry with a New York accent! Shockaroo! Now that I never imagined - you had a rather more...mellifluous voice, if that doesn't sound too predictable: rather like I would imagine an elf speaking, I'm afraid. Say Liv Tyler at her nobler Arwen moments. The song 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square' also comes to mind - just listen

Ohhh! You go, Girl! You told me once you wanted to be a writer Aman: just keep painting these beautiful pictures. I have always imagined your voice as a cross between Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Anna Paquin as Amy Alder in Fly Away Home , but maybe that's because so many of your RPG characters keep tugging at my ear lobe too.

Originally Posted by Fordo

When I leev mie hoose, eye am oot and aboot the toon, doont yoo knouw?
. . .
If this means Central (faintly rural) Canadian, then you are correct.

Eh.

Originally Posted by Aman

You're....scottish?! Well, either that or a born-again Geordie...

Actually, we have to ask Fordim how he would pronounce Bethberry as then I will be able to place him closer to or farther away from the Ottawa Valley.

[Orominuialwen]

Originally Posted by Kath

Question for Nilp: why meow?

Thing is now, that everytime I try to imagine the voice of anyone who has been a werewolf in a game that I have played with always has a really deep, slightly evil sounding voice in my head, except for Oromin who I couldn't believe to be wolvish even when I was a fellow wolf with her! To me her voice is still light and happy sounding (unless I have just read a post in which she is rather depressed).

My voice is actually rather light and happy sounding. I'm told that I sound very much like my mom and brother (but not my dad, who still has some of his Brooklyn accent left), and almost identical to them on the phone. I fortunately don't have much (if any) of a Wisconsin accent, which has an annoying nasal sound and a tendency to prononce i's as e's. If anybody's truly interested in how my voice sounds, PM me and I can send you a recording or something.

I think that Saucy sounds like my next-door neighbor. Said neighbor is British, although he's lived a lot in other parts of the world, and about the same age as Saucy. He has a sort of medium voice--neither particularly high or low.

The Phantom sounds like a friend of my family. He says everything in a sort of sarcastic and ironic manner, like he's laughing at everything, himself included.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Question for Nilp: why meow? (Kath)

Because you're a cat!

*groan* I'm not gonna start on how bad that one was . . . it's just bad.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by the phantom

Mith speaks with the generic Sexy Brit accent (think Kate Beckinsale).

I do? .. Oh yes I do ....well on a good day ... And this is now a good day... Some people did go a bit crazy over my voice when I was in the states the first time... which freaked me out a bit...but overseas visitors were a bit of a novelty in Great Bend, Kansas...


Well what about the rest of you.....

The Saucepan Man usually sounds like the exasperated teacher in an old Rowan Atkinson sketch involving the South Sea Bubble "Do you think we are stupid? ..Did you think we wouldn't notice...the same thing over and over again......" .

I have trouble imagining Lal, Davem and Aman as sounding northern but I guess they must, at least a bit..... strange hotchpotch of Sean Bean, Ted Hughes and Betty Boothroyd

Boromir88 sounds like James Stewart ....

The Phantom does not speak - he communicates by telepathy.

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...

Hmm ....

[The Only Real Estel]

Nilp & Bethberry are right of course. More than half the fun is being wrong (sometimes purposely, as I should know )-I'd rather have you, Boro, imagine my voice as Darth Vader's than not imagine it at all.

Khuru: Khuru's voice is deep and a bit intimidating.

the phantom: Well, apparently he sounds like me. o_O