405. British Accents in The Lord of the Rings (Part 2)

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this episode we continue to analyse the various British accents that you can hear in the film version of The Lord of the Rings. Let's consider the accents of some of the main characters, such as Frodo, Sam, Pippin, Merry, Treebeard, Elrond, Boromir, Gandalf, Saruman, Legolas, Gimli and the orcs. http://wp.me/p4IuUx-7fL

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0:40.0	UK. Hello everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. This is part two of an episode in
0:47.4	which I'm talking about British accents that you hear in the Lord of the Rings
0:51.7	films and in part one of this I went through as much
0:56.8	commentary as I could give you about accents and about the different associations that we have with the accents for each character in these movies.
1:10.0	All right? And so what we're going to do in this episode is actually listen to
1:14.4	samples of speech from the film. The purpose of that is to sort of investigate and
1:22.2	analyze the accents that you can hear and hopefully this is going to help you to be able to identify different accents in English and get a greater sense of familiarity with the different regional accents.
1:33.7	So remember we're talking about regional accents and then receive pronunciation and then
1:40.4	high RP or heightened receive pronunciation and in a very basic way regional
1:46.3	accents for sort of I guess working class a working class background then standard received pronunciation for a middle class background and then a sort of
1:57.6	posh accent, a heightened RP for an upper class background. Now that's very simple, almost maybe a
2:08.0	bit too reductive. Let's just start listening to some characters and we'll see what they sound like.
2:13.7	We're going to start with The Hobbits. So I'm now going to play you a recording of The Hobbits.
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