
404. British Accents in The Lord of the Rings (Part 1)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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Tolkien's High Elven Language
There are some elves in the story who speak another kind of with a slightly different accent. That is the one that's influenced directly by Tolkien's original version of his elvish language. He was influenced to a large extent by Welsh by Scandinavian languages like Norse languages Icelandic and things like that. We're going to listen to some samples in a bit. I'm going to go through some clips and some samples and we'll hear them so we can make comparisons between these different accents.
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