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404. British Accents in The Lord of the Rings (Part 1)

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The Origins of Received Pronunciation

Andy Serkis the actor who plays golem did a great job of creating this this voice and I mean we'll we'll listen to some in a minute and we'll see so Bilbo Baggins yeah he's like Frodo Baggins speaks with received pronunciation R when Galadriel L. Rond they all speak received pronunciation because they're fancy posh elves Aomer the Aomer Theoden and Aowen these characters who are from rohan. They all speak with received pronunciation Treebeard is an ent you know one of those tree creatures he's like half tree half sort of person Treebeard speaks in the sort of voice like this. It's essentially it's basically old

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