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skip spence · 09-02-2009, 08:26 AM

Didn't Strider mimic the accent of Bree-landers with some acclaim?

Mnemosyne · 09-02-2009, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by skip spence

Didn't Strider mimic the accent of Bree-landers with some acclaim?

Yes, he did, but that's not who I had in mind--although it might lead you along the right track. I'm looking for a statement that's even more explicit than Frodo's observing that Strider's speech has changed.

If people don't get the person I'm thinking of in a few days I'll yield the floor as that does techinically answer my original question (thus meaning I didn't phrase it specifically enough).

Or I can give more hints.

Folwren · 09-03-2009, 06:54 AM

Gandalf, perhaps? He knows a lot of languages and could possibly be able to use the language's different accents, too. I'm thinking particularly of the time when he and the Three Hunters show up at the gates of Edoras, and one of the guards addresses them in the Rohanian tongue.

-- Folwren

Mnemosyne · 09-03-2009, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Folwren

Gandalf, perhaps? He knows a lot of languages and could possibly be able to use the language's different accents, too. I'm thinking particularly of the time when he and the Three Hunters show up at the gates of Edoras, and one of the guards addresses them in the Rohanian tongue.

-- Folwren

But we don't know how good that accent was.

Everyone so far has been looking in the wrong place in the text, even if they've been looking in the correct book.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 09-03-2009, 09:31 AM

Heck, from the beginning I have been thinking only about Frodo's meeting with Gildor. But I think there's nothing there about accents, either.

Mnemosyne · 09-04-2009, 02:46 PM

Don't look in the text of LotR itself.

Nerwen · 09-06-2009, 04:04 AM

What about Frodo? In Appendix E–

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Frodo is said to have shown "great skill with foreign sounds".

Mnemosyne · 09-06-2009, 09:11 AM

And we have a winner!

Take the thread, Nerwen.

**The Saucepan Man** · 10-07-2009, 05:23 PM

Nerwen?

The Might · 03-13-2010, 09:53 AM

Thought I'd bump this one again, if no new question is asked by Nerwen I'll come up with something.

09-02-2009, 08:26 AM	#761
skip spence shadow of a doubt Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Back on the streets Posts: 1,125	Didn't Strider mimic the accent of Bree-landers with some acclaim? __________________ "You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way" ~ Bob Dylan

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Folwren Messenger of Hope Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a tiny, insignificant little town in one of the many States. Posts: 5,076	Gandalf, perhaps? He knows a lot of languages and could possibly be able to use the language's different accents, too. I'm thinking particularly of the time when he and the Three Hunters show up at the gates of Edoras, and one of the guards addresses them in the Rohanian tongue. -- Folwren __________________ A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C.S. Lewis

09-03-2009, 09:31 AM	#765
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Heck, from the beginning I have been thinking only about Frodo's meeting with Gildor. But I think there's nothing there about accents, either. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

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