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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 9537484" data-attributes="member: 6780330">Certainly everyone has an accent: what I meant was that Tolkien sounded less foreign to my ears than the standard upperclass RP speakers I am familiar with. And, interestingly, my own General American accent is derived from the Early Modern Midlands accent being filtered through German immigrants, as I understand it, though I do not have an ear for British accents other than vague vibes.Tolkien's interests were tied strongly into the Midlands, for sure: the anonymous Gawaon/Pearl Poet that he worked on exetensively as an academic came from Staffordshire, same as Arthur Tolkien, and Tolkien managed to sneak some Midlands Middle English variants back into Modern English through his books.</blockquote>