No one decided that, if you’re looking at Tolkien based fantasy then of course it’s British because it’s British fantasy
All of the Asian fantasy I’ve seen has been populated by people of their respective country.
Everyone knows the Grim Reaper is Jamaican
This post is stupid, just write your desired fantasy
Why so much room for activities on this image?
cropping hard
American accents sound too 'modern' because American English wasn't a thing until the Medieval period had long passed, and most fantasy is medieval or medieval-adjacent.
I'm all for broadening the use, though. I love that the Witcher games gave Geralt and the other Witchers of the School of the Wolf American accents, though. And Dragon Age (back when it was good) giving the dwarves American accents.
American English wasn’t a thing until the Medieval period had long passed
Nor was modern British English. One of the defining features of modern British English is the lack of rhoticity (dropping the "r" sound), but that's very modern, only happening in the 19th century. They have managed to recreate how English sounded in Shakespeare's time by looking at words that were supposed to rhyme, and their meter. To me, it sounds like "pirate English".
https://youtu.be/uQc5ZpAoU4c?t=299
Whether modern American English is closer to Shakespeare's English is a matter for debate. I'd say it's closer than RP, but not as close as some rural British accents.
That may be true for regional us dialects, but the core of American pronunciation is older than Received Pronunciation
Xenoblade 2 had a nice use of the various English accents, generally each nation/group in the game used a particular accent (eg Mor Ardain = Scottish, villain group Torna spoke American English). One unique character (a blade) had a southern grew-up-on-a-farm accent.
Pretty sure because the “original” fantasy was written as a false history for England (LoTR was this). So it makes sense that the people would bear an English accent
I hope one day we can have a (respectful) mainstream fantasy world for Native America, It could be so cool.
Also, why are all dwarfs Scottish?
Dwarves have American accents in Dragon Age!
Fantasy is based upon the middle ages.
During the middle ages the US did not exist.
Let's see.
Dwarves: Billy-Bob Thornton's accent from Sling Blade.
Elves: Transatlantic accent. Used by stars in the 1930s/1940s.
Hobbits: Cajun. Makes sense, they love food, live a rural life, etc.
Orcs: NYC accent
Goblins: Chicago Accent
Or, if you wanted to go international.
Dwarves: Gotta go with the classic. Glasgow.
Elves: South African. I think it can sound smart but foreign-influenced, as elves should.
Hobbits: Aussie
Orcs: NYC accent again
Goblins: Newfoundland accent
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We do, they just tend to be the Orcs or Goblins lol
I would like to take this moment recommend Not Another D&D Podcast solely because of the Crick Elves
Yes we collectively decided it. We all had a big vote, but you weren't invited.
I know you are making fun and all, but things like this are indeed reproduced.
Basicly it's a process of cultural and collective copy and pasting, where media and indivulas reproduce a concept by either activly using it (or not) or passives acepting it.
It's a bit more complex than that, but you probably get the idea.
Thanks for educating me 🙏🙏🙏
Good lord no. Here in the US I hear plenty of that. It's the last thing I want to hear in a fantasy.
The German translation of Baldur's Gate decided for some reason that elves spoke in an east-German accent. Imagine Legolas sounding like he was from Texas.
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A great example of this is Not Another D&D Podcast, a comedy D&D podcast. The first campaign has a player character who sounds like she’s from Appalachia!
And she has one of the best Possum familiars ever!
Yes! (Also, hi fellow NADDpole! There’s at least two of us here! Lol)
I did a dnd campaign once where it had a Louisiana bayou theme. Rednecks? Southern belles, and swamp gnomes with Cajun French accents. Was a lot of fun!
There's a DnD podcast called "Not Another DnD Podcast", where one of the characters is a redneck elf. That one's played by Emily Axford, who's also part of D20: https://open.spotify.com/show/5GcTIDkgnB9wP6CmUyOSqa?si=2FX7y8bcTfitOVluc7pVcw
I give you Tex of the Black Pants Legion talking about playing D&D in rural Texas. We gonna praise Palor up in hyaugh!
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Careful what you wish for. I believe it’s in the first book of Wheel of Time that suddenly there's a group of "darkfriends" (basically worshippers of the ultimate evil) who all speak in a dialect that sounds like they're from rural Georgia.
Even with Rosamund Pike doing a fantastic job reading the audio book, that was immersion breaking as fuck 😂
the seanchan are described as having a drawl, but you're not introduced to them until book2 and they're not uniformly darkfriends.
there’s a group of “darkfriends” ... who all speak in a dialect that sounds like they’re from rural Georgia
Not sure how you got that impression from reading a book. It's not like he references rural Georgia.
Theres not enough guns in Fantasy stories to warrant a redneck accent
Monsters, Inc. Fairy trailer trash with a southern accent. You're welcome.
Ever been to Tennessee? You really don't want that lol
Has nobody here seen The Wizard of Oz?
An elf with a heavy Southern California accent.
Valley Girl Elf. Actually, I think I've seen that done somewhere... 🤔
Stephen King's Dark Tower is what this woman is looking for
Aye reckon
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