THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
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THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD TO ISENGUARD
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
STUPID FAT HOBBIT
TELL ME WHERE IS GANDALF, FOR I MUCH DESIRE TO SPEAK WITH HIM.
TELL ME WHERE IS GANDALF, FOR I MUCH DESIRE TO SPEAK WITH HIM.
A BALROG OF MORGOTH
What's taters precious?
Boil em, mash em, put em in a stew!
Well that would be strange, because that's not quite in the book.
There were a lot of songs though.
When I have kids, one of the greatest challenges I'm anticipating is going to be keeping all the voices of the dwarves in the Hobbit diverse yet consistent.
Weirdly, I've given this problem some thought.
I like to go for famous people with memorable delivery styles and as much variety as possible:
- Ed Wynn
- John Wayne
- Bob Hope
- John Fielder
- Noel Fielding
- Kumail Nanjiani
- Peter Capaldi
- Richard Ayoade
- Stephen Fry
- Steve Buscemi
- Peter Cullen
- Jonathan Frakes
This is also a useful reference group for ad-hoc NPCs when running a game of Pathfinder.
Edit: I focused on male voices, since we're talking about doing the Hobbit. But now I want to reuse this for NPCs.
Some great, distinct, female voices:
- Reba McIntyre
- Jane Krakowski (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
- Natasha Fatale (from Rocky and Bullwinkle) (June Foray)
- Granny (from Luney Tunes) (June Foray, Tress MacNeille)
- Jane Kangaroo (Horton Hears a Who) (still June Foray)
- Daisy Duck (often Tress MacNeille)
- Dot Warner (Tress MacNeille again)
- Mrs Featherby (DuckTales) (Tress MacNeille again)
Mine aren't old enough to tell me that I'm doing voices wrong yet. I need to practice.
Alternatively Andy Serkis did an audio book for the hobbit and LoTR which are amazing.
I didn't know I needed Andy Serkis singing the songs in the Hobbit until I heard it, but it turns out I did. Dude has an amazing singing voice.
I need to check this out!
Yeah...If I recall correctly, I think I picked a voice for Thorin, and then everyone else got "generic dwarf voice."
Goosebumps. Gonna need to watch the extended trilogy again now..
Same here, after all these years still goosebumps every time
RIP Bernard Hill
If you get a crowd going enough, you can yell some barely intelligible bullshit and they'll eat it up.
FOR CHOCOLATE SOCKS
FOR CHOCOLATE SOCKS!!
Ngl, this was a problem for me too.
It wasn't lord of the rings, because the kid wasn't into that level of vocabulary yet. It was Harry Potter. But apparently, me booming out every line of Hagrid's in a faux Scottish accent was "going to keep the kid and the entire neighborhood up all night, you damn nerd."
Doesn't Hagrid famously have a west country accent?
Everyone thinks Hagrid is Scottish because of that other groundskeeper.
Yeah, but I essentially have 3 UK accents, and they all suck, but the Scottish is the least bad lol.
As long as he isn't busting into the room, screaming "IS IT SECRET? IS IT SAFE?" at all hours of the night.
man my OED app has been giving bullshit words of the day like "frenzy" "prestige" "vacant" and stuff ive known since i was a kid, and here on twitter you get gems like "verve" which is an actual WotD
"frenzy” “prestige” “vacant”
Wow I feel like almost all adult native speakers will have heard of a feeding frenzy, a vacant lot and a prestigious award. Those look like good words of the day for speakers of English as a second language of 2-5 years maybe.
right? I had to check myself: "am i that pretentious that I use this many words average people don't know?"and there's no good way to ask that question without sounding even more pretentious
Yeah no, you're fine, I'm an ESL speaker (although for 17 years) so they can't be that special. But verve and eyrie (seen elsewhere in this thread, from Tolkien) those I actually had to search up. Haha my browsers spellcheck even puts squiggles under eyrie.
I had to look them up as well.
verve vəːv
noun
- vigour and spirit or enthusiasm.
eyrie ˈɪəri
noun
- a large nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built high in a tree or on a cliff.
- a high or inaccessible place from which someone can observe what is below them.
TIL.
weird! never seen the spelling "eyrie" but I'd probably be fine with understanding "aerie" from context. I looked it up too and apparently that's the same word but ae is NA style
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My dad read the Hobbit for my sister and I like this. Even with songs at all those (many) song points in the book.
I'll always remember that.
I've never heard the terme "verve" before
Was gonna make a TIL comment
Verve, vim, vigor
V words that all basically mean lively or enthusiastic, full of life.
She's a lucky woman.
Parenting done right :)