i'll really miss the beheaded guy's accent
― nashwan, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
Tormund Giantsbane seems to have some kind of Scando accent.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
The discrepancy between the Stark kids can be sort-of handwaved away because some of them would have been closely brought up by Catelyn.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
Basically if you have a posh mum you tend to talk like her until you get older and start caring about sounding more like your friends.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
I think the Baratheons may have been raised separately, Robert was a ward of Jon Aryn with Ned Stark.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
oh hmm. but then why do robert and ned both have pronounced northern accents given that they were raised in the vale
― max, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago) link
the bloke with the eyepatch in the brotherhood sounds irish, authentically so. i forget his name.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:10 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark
He is. Also just found out Conleth Hill aka Varys is Irish too, and a Nordie at that.
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ accent talk, just accept that there's nothing systematic about their damn accents and move on (NERRRRDS) (sorry)
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
*pushes up glasses*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/a/a2/Harrenhal_bath_by_cabepfir.jpg
― Call the Cops, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
― gyac, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
show has proven to be quite a boon for Irish character actors
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
dear image above: wtf?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Thermo,ASOIAF are crepes.
Love,The Internet
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
*fans
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
ok so help me out
ned starkreal accent - sheffieldshow accent - sheffield
catelyn starkreal accent - north irishshow accent - "southern" (????)
robb starkreal accent - scottishshow accent - generic northern
jon snowreal accent - ??show accent - generic northern
arya starkreal accent - ??show accent - "southern" (??)
sansa starkreal accent - ??show accent - "southern" (??)
brann starkreal accent - ??show accent - "southern" (??)
robert baratheonreal accent - yorkishshow accent - yorkish
cersei baratheonreal accent - ? ("home countries"? "RP"?)show accent - same
tywin lannisterreal accent - ? ("actor"? "home countries"? "RP"?)show accent - same
tyrion lannisterreal accent - americanshow accent - vague ("RP"?) english
jaime lannisterreal accent - danishshow accent - vague english
joffrey baratheonreal accent - irish (cork?)show accent - english
already exhausted tbh
― max, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
The wildling girl with red hair and a northern accent in the show has one of the poshest RP voices i've ever heard irl.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
Petyr Baelishreal accent - irishshow accent - fuck knows
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
Arya has a slight twang to her accent which I can't quite identify - maybe west country?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
Kit Harington was born in London, England[3] and lived there until he was 11,[4] the son of Deborah Jane (née Catesby), a former playwright, and David Richard Harington. His paternal great-grandfather was Sir Richard Harington, the 12th Baronet Harington.[5] Through his father, Harington descends from politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, bacon merchant T. A. Denny, clergyman Baptist Wriothesley Noel, merchant and politician Peter Baillie, peer William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, and MP Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet.[5]
So, erm, pretty upper class then.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
Given all that I'm assuming the difference in Stark accents is deliberate. The girl that plays Sansa is from Northampton although all the younger ones have a kind of generic thesp accent.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 12:28 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
cor ur not wrong she makes most of the royal famalam sound like oiks
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
Her parents have two castles!
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
that's the trouble with castles, one is never enough
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago) link
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:30 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
she's from somerset (so... yes? right?)
― max, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
Lena Heady (Cersei) is from Yorkshire, which you can detect from her normal voice on the audio commentaries. It isn't strong, but it isn't the soft RP she uses in the programme.
I love Ygritte's voice! I don't mean the accent, I mean the hoarseness.
― DavidM, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.rightmove.co.uk/51k/50090/37523146/50090_3482_IMG_09_0000_max_620x414.JPGhttp://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/b8/17/2a/warthill-b-b.jpg
Ygritte's ancestral cribs. Funny how she has been cast as lowly types in her TV work: a housemaid in Downton Abbey, and a wildling in GoT.
― DavidM, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
Given all that I'm assuming the difference in Stark accents is deliberateI never bothered reading any more into this than "the children couldn't do Yorkshire accents". They all use their real accents.
― gyac, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
yeah ygritte's voice is dead sexy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
She might be rich as hell, but she's still Scottish. To the maid's quarters/caves of the North with you
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
the bloke with the eyepatch in the brotherhood sounds irish, authentically so.
That's Richard Dormer, who also plays the central character Terri Hooley in the movie Good Vibrations. Saw his name and couldn't believe it was the same guy.
― Back to the Fuchsia, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Undergraduate students are already tackling these important issues of accent!http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-1882.html
― eindbestemming, Thursday, 2 May 2013 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
Excellent Rose Leslie / Ygritte accent action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPdPTY_-icQ
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, she's posher than Kate Middleton.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
Inordinately amused that someone is referring to her as Cersei Baratheon.
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
My wife's co-worker Courtney made Game of Thrones cakepops. Big pic so link instead of embed:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJWWSG3CAAE6mmh.jpg
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
bravo
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
Are they all Ned? :(
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
One is W.
― Gukbe, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
It's Dallas, and she's not from here. They might all be W.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 3 May 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 May 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
are they red velvet cake inside? that would be an awesome finishing touch
I'll ask my wife.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 3 May 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nor/3725685022.htmlI'm looking for a Stark in the streets but a wildling in the sheets.
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 May 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/1459d64c64ced1c3fe7f7126c0c53ec5/tumblr_mm8llvNmHe1qcbs47o1_500.jpg
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
Oops, maybe that should go into the spoiler thread.
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Nah, I don't think that it's too spoilerific to reveal that GRRM hasn't actually completed the series yet tbh
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Ros ;_;
― Gukbe, Monday, 6 May 2013 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/SjH3Gg6.jpg
too subtle?
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 6 May 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link