i was playing baulders gate and i noticed the elves sound scottish why is this???????

They're Scottish elves, duh. :rolleyes:

<font color=Cadetblue>Elves don't sound Scottish, dwarves do...</font>

Must be related to the whole kilts thing.

They must be from clan McHaggis. :D

maybe because the voice actors are scottish in origin?

What's up with etriological elven questiosns this week? First we have questiosn about elven pubes and now we're attacking their accents? I've seen many an elf without a scottish accent though...

if anything they should have Nordic/Scandinavian accents. Tolkiens' (and subsequently D&D's) elves and dwarves are derived from Norse legend.

To someone from Scotland, the elves don't sound Scottish in the slightest.
Dwarves sound like a Scotty from Star Trek version of Scottish.

"The engines canna cope captain", ie Irish mixed up with some kind of American accent.

I can guarantee you the voice actors were not Scottish!.

Obviously they couldn't have real Scots doing the voices because then no one would understand them.

Whit'reye sayin'like?

They do not sound scottich to me. [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]

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What does that sig say, />eathkiller? (or anyone else) PM me.... </font>[/QUOTE]I was going to ask the same question! [img]tongue.gif[/img] I'm taking a wild guess, but does it say "Deathkiller?" ;)

Back on topic however..

Scottish accents? Haven't really noticed. [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img]

I also assumed that dwarves had the scottish accents...but elves?? Nah...

no no no your all wrong! ALL wrong ill tell ya!
Elves dosent sound scothiish < look its even to hard to spell it ! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Elves sounds like danish people trying to spea polite english all knows that and dwarfs dosent sound schothiisi < again´! what did i tell ya damn word..
dwarfs sounds Irish < now thats a real word :D

Uhh Cristian, in the Rankin & Bass cartoon version of The Hobbit, the Dwarves sound definitively Scottish (thats how you spell it), and the Elves have an obvious Nordic accent. There's no doubt about it. Of course in games etc. I don't know; leave it to the creators to mess up the voiceacting, they'd only be living up to the general trend. Not to say that all in game voicing is horrible; there are many good games. But who can forget the disasterous laughing scene in FFX. That's honestly the only real problem I had with that game.

omg you can spell that word great [img]smile.gif[/img] and yes... FFX when they laughed < hard word .. that almost made me cry...