Did you think it sounded fake?

My older brother and sister love to make fun of him because they say that he does a terrible British accent for Frodo. I've never thought so, but I'm not British so it's hard for me to judge. So what do you guys think? (Especially you guys from the UK, since you've heard it all your life!)

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ahah well, I'm italian, trying to learn how to recognize all the english-american-australian accents, but I can't really judge his accent...I'd like to know what english people think about it though

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well...im american but i do tent to be able to tell accents and how good they are....im not the best at it but....but....you know....i don't think i actually ever really paid attention to the accent in the first place...i don't think i ever realized he was doing a british accent...so....idk....it'd be interesting to know what others thought though.

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Well, I for one think he did a wonderful job! But that might just be my loyalty talking. Although I will say this: my mother still thinks that's his natural accent.

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i'm english, and i thought he did ok. sometimes he pushed it a little too far and sounded too posh, which is something most americans do, but generally it was alright.

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I thought it was fine most of the time. For me, any mistakes he may have made where cancelled out by his beautiful voice and incredible acting.

I did notice, though, that in at least one part he sounded a little too American. Listen in fotr when he is talking to Galadriel and he says, "It's just-I'm afraid to do it." It's kind of cute, actually... I'm not whining about it because the poor kid had do the most acting in all three films, and barely got any free time.

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I had not noticed that he had been trying to have a British accent. In my opinion he did not seem to have an accent at all. He sounded American.

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Hmm his accent did go in out quite a bit. But when I was watching it it didn't occur to me; I was so focused on his great acting job and everything else going on that it was not on my radar at all. It don't think it was terrible though (I've heard much worse).

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I thought that for the longest time too . Until I saw him in another movie...

I can't judge it, because I'm German; but to me it sounded very natural.

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Since I'm English I can say that he did a fairly good job. There's one bit though, right at the beginning of FotR when he says to Gandalf, "But you've only just arrived!" and the 'arrived' sounds very American in my opinion. But generally I think he did a pretty good job.

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It wasn't the best English accent I've heard, but I had no problem with it at all, so he did a rather decent job. Put it this way, when I first saw FotR, I had no idea Elijah was American and didn't even think of his accent when I saw it, so it must have something.

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I don't really think it matters whether it's a perfect accent or not. Middle-Earth is not a real place and even though the Common Tongue is English, I hardly think they would have the same accents or dialects as here in the real world so for all we know, Elijah could be sporting a very typical Hobbiton accent

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I think he was pretty darn good. I'm auzzie, and I've noticed that, at a majority of the time, when an American tries to do an English accent, sometimes it comes out sorta Auzzie. And when an Auzzie tries to do an American accent, it comes out sorta Canadian. But we're talking about actors here, not normal people. Lol.

But I reckon that Elijah did a pretty good job, but maybe not quite up to the standard of the dude who does Mr Tumnus from Narnia. He's American too, and you'd never know!

But, Elijah was only 17 when he started, and all three movies weren't shot in sequence, so, we can't really tell what were early scenes and what weren't, but Elijah gets a nice 90% awesome job all round from me!

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