Ok, now sleep tight
Ok, now sleep tight
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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.
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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)
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Don't forget to pick some characters you admire for vanity's sake.
What i mean to say is my canon Sherlock Holmes headvoice is father's, who loves Holmes and it would tickle him pink if he knew
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What i mean to say is my canon Sherlock Holmes headvoice is father's, who loves Holmes and it would tickle him pink if he knew
That's delightful! Thank you for sharing it.
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Yeah...If I recall correctly, I think I picked a voice for Thorin, and then everyone else got "generic dwarf voice."
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Well that would be strange, because that's not quite in the book.
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There were a lot of songs though.
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I halfling the URL 4 u & remove evil Google eye of Sauron
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If you get a crowd going enough, you can yell some barely intelligible bullshit and they'll eat it up.
FOR CHOCOLATE SOCKS
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FOR CHOCOLATE SOCKS!!
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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."
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As long as he isn't busting into the room, screaming "IS IT SECRET? IS IT SAFE?" at all hours of the night.
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How old are these kids? Because those books get impressively eloquent as they advance, not to mention disturbing:
A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed.
Are kids gonna love that or wonder what the hell he's talking about? I can't decide.
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I just finished reading the LotR series with my now-11 yo son (we started a few years ago) and there were definitely plenty of sections like this that I converted to more understandable terms and concepts on the fly. Sure my son may not have heard this exact line, but he definitely got the idea that
Shelob was old, bad, and Sauron had encouraged get 8 in exchange for a scary guard in the tunnels into Mordorthe fell beasts were scary.Edit: apparently my son may or may not have gotten an entirely different version of the book told to him!
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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
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"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.
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Verve is a US record label and you need to know it.
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so is Virgin 😜
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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.
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I've never heard the terme "verve" before
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Verve, vim, vigor
V words that all basically mean lively or enthusiastic, full of life.
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Was gonna make a TIL comment
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She's a lucky woman.
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This guy gets it.
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Parenting done right :)
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Relevant verve
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How to differentiate from those who've read the book and those who haven't.
I assume OP just did their best to make up an example. She doesn't say anywhere that she is a superfan herself or even has read the books at all.
I assume it was made up because people do that
What's the catch? I've read the anthology a couple of times, albeit not in English, and I seem to miss the joke here.
The speech in the OP is Théoden's speech from the movie. In the book, he says,
and just a page or two later
(ROTK book 5, chapters 5 & 6)
Now, Eomer does say something very similar to Theoden's speech from the Charge of the Rohirrim, upon discovering his sister and assuming her dead:
and in the next paragraph
(later in ROTK book 5, chapter 6)
The line "Forth Eorlingas!" is Theoden's (though the Rohirrim also say it en masse), but it's from the chapter about Helm's Deep and the one preceding it. (TTT book 3, chapters 6 & 7).
And, look, Theoden's speech before the Charge of the Rohirrim at Pelennor is a cinematic masterpiece. And Bernard Hill (RIP) is probably the biggest reason why; his delivery is unimpeachable. In a lot of ways, the speech in the movie is better than what's in the books at that moment; but honestly they are trying to do different things.
So technically, the movie version is a bit heightened from the book version, and cobbled together from a few different sources. To put it all together:
Verbatim from Theoden's speech in ROTK chapter 5. Correctly placed in the narrative.
Also from Theoden's speech in ROTK chapter 5, but not quite verbatim (they added a "shall" in there, presumably for flow...or maybe just Bernard Hill forgot the exact line). Correctly placed in the narrative, though they left out "Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!" before this line.
Verbatim from Theoden's speech in ROTK chapter 5. Correctly placed in the narrative.
Also from Theoden's speech in ROTK chapter 5, with an extra "Ride!" thrown in. Correctly placed in the narrative.
Transplanted from Eomer's speech in ROTK chapter 6, with "to" replaced with "for," the order of the lines reversed, and the mood changed from despair to defiance.
Right character, wrong moment. Transplanted from Theoden's speech in TTT chapter 7 at Helm's Deep, but in the same vein as Theoden's shout of "Up Eorlingas!" from the beginning of ROTK chapter 6.
So Kelly, from the original tweet, probably overheard her husband reading Chapter 5 of ROTK, and her brain filled in the movie version of the quote while she was writing the tweet.