Re: CHAT: Cockney Orkish as she is spoken.

Andrew Smith <hobbit@...> wrote:
> I applied to be an extra in the Lord of the Rings movies being filmed in
> New Zealand and I have been offered an audition for speaking role as an
> orc(!)  If I'm very lucky I'll get to threaten hobbits and swear in Black
> Speech (Ugluk u bagronk sha pushdug Saruman-glob!  The end of the curse
> '...bubhush skai' seems to have dropped off the end of the script.)  The
> agency through which I am auditioning advised me to do the audition in a
> British accent and they suggested Cockney.  I'm still trying to see the
> connection.  So can anyone suggest what is so 'orkish' about Cockney, and
> how I can 'debase' that dialect to sound authentic.
I've never heard a Cockney speaking, so I can't
shed any light on the subject. But like some others
who have posted about this, I think the suggestion
is quite offensive... But probably your agent suggested
the Cockney accent only in order to make your lines
sound un-English-like and, and not knowing that there
are actually more "correct" forms to pronounce Orkish
words -- i. e. the way Tolkien created them.


--Pablo Flores