It's powerful stuff, that Guinness... actually, I just got frustrated with what I was doing and jammed it together. My photoshop skillz aren't quite mad enough.
Well, jeez. They drink pints of beer, are obsessed with "taters", ogle barstaff, blow things up, sing, smoke, and have their homeland invaded by the minions of some bastard with an upper-class English accent who lives hundreds of miles away. What more proof do you need?
To be picky, apparently Tolkien wasn't crazy about the whole Celtic twilight thing or Ireland generally. Jackson's kind of avoided the issue with the hobbits, with one Scots actor, one UK actor with an Irish-sounding name, one American actor obviously coached to talk sort of broad west country, and the other coached to talk average stage British. I'm used to how Billy Boyd sounds now, but it doesn't really make sense that he's got a Scots accent and nobody else does. It's reminiscent of Excalibur in which the actor playing King Arthur unaccountably uses an irish brogue and nobody else does.
I thought I read somewhere that the Tooks did have a somewhat different accent, or something, though whether it was Scottish I have no idea.
Anyway, evidently the filmmakers liked Boyd's accent so much that they didn't give him the speech coaching everyone else got. On a more practical level, it helps people like my mom, who's never read the books, tell the difference between the Indistinguishable Backup Hobbits.
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Well, that and I hear it's a lovely country.
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Anyway, evidently the filmmakers liked Boyd's accent so much that they didn't give him the speech coaching everyone else got. On a more practical level, it helps people like my mom, who's never read the books, tell the difference between the Indistinguishable Backup Hobbits.