Fantasy rednecks

Ancient city-sized dragon that is eons older that any surviving historical text or man-made structures in the world, speaking to the dwarf that stands bravely before her: "Well ain't chu just the most precious lil' thang I ever did lay eyes on! Wut's yer name, sugah?"

No one decided that, if you’re looking at Tolkien based fantasy then of course it’s British because it’s British fantasy

All of the Asian fantasy I’ve seen has been populated by people of their respective country.

Everyone knows the Grim Reaper is Jamaican

This post is stupid, just write your desired fantasy

I don't want none of them there dragons yonder.

What better way to break immersion than have your quest giver start screaming GO ON GIT

Why so much room for activities on this image?

American accents sound too 'modern' because American English wasn't a thing until the Medieval period had long passed, and most fantasy is medieval or medieval-adjacent.

I'm all for broadening the use, though. I love that the Witcher games gave Geralt and the other Witchers of the School of the Wolf American accents. And Dragon Age (back when it was good) giving the dwarves American accents.

Because its fantasy no ones fantasising about American accents.

Orc: "Y'all lil fellers in the wrong gotdam place I reckon. You boys jus' git on up in them rocks and take them panties right off."

Pretty sure because the “original” fantasy was written as a false history for England (LoTR was this). So it makes sense that the people would bear an English accent

Fantasy is based upon the middle ages.

During the middle ages the US did not exist.

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Because New Zealand is a fantasy hence why it doesn't exist on many world maps.

Let's see.

Dwarves: Billy-Bob Thornton's accent from Sling Blade.

Elves: Transatlantic accent. Used by stars in the 1930s/1940s.

Hobbits: Cajun. Makes sense, they love food, live a rural life, etc.

Orcs: NYC accent

Goblins: Chicago Accent

Or, if you wanted to go international.

Dwarves: Gotta go with the classic. Glasgow.

Elves: South African. I think it can sound smart but foreign-influenced, as elves should.

Hobbits: Aussie

Orcs: NYC accent again

Goblins: Newfoundland accent

It's british because it's based on medieval times, when USA (or Australia/New Zealand for that matter) was yet to be permanently settled by europeans.

It's not a different european language, because english has become the lingua franca of the world.

We do, they just tend to be the Orcs or Goblins lol

Most have Eurocentric accents because those are the areas the various legends and stories originated.

Various depictions of leprechauns make them pretty much Irish rednecks. I love Mad Sweeney's depiction in American Gods.

I would like to take this moment recommend Not Another D&D Podcast solely because of the Crick Elves

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Geralt has an American accent in the games.

Tolkien, the father of modern fantasy based Middle Earth a lot on old Britain and the affects industrialisation was having.

I'd love to see more fantasy based on Native American mythology for sure.

In Dragon Age, the dwarves speak with an American accent, which was pretty unique during the time.

Because for fantasy we think of middle ages, and middle ages america is full of natives, not a single English speaker in sight

Yes we collectively decided it. We all had a big vote, but you weren't invited.

I mean go and watch true blood or read the books ots based off of ?

Modern fantasy is heavily based on ancient European fairytales and folklore

Good lord no. Here in the US I hear plenty of that. It's the last thing I want to hear in a fantasy.

A great example of this is Not Another D&D Podcast, a comedy D&D podcast. The first campaign has a player character who sounds like she’s from Appalachia!

The German translation of Baldur's Gate decided for some reason that elves spoke in an east-German accent. Imagine Legolas sounding like he was from Texas.

I did a dnd campaign once where it had a Louisiana bayou theme. Rednecks? Southern belles, and swamp gnomes with Cajun French accents. Was a lot of fun!

"y'all want some fairy dust?"

The Seanchan would like a slowly drawled word.

I give you Tex of the Black Pants Legion talking about playing D&D in rural Texas. We gonna praise Palor up in hyaugh!

Because English speaking viewers don't want to read subtitles

Fantasy species are supposed to be ancient.

America is a toddler of a nation, in age and behavior.

There's a DnD podcast called "Not Another DnD Podcast", where one of the characters is a redneck elf. That one's played by Emily Axford, who's also part of D20: https://open.spotify.com/show/5GcTIDkgnB9wP6CmUyOSqa?si=2FX7y8bcTfitOVluc7pVcw

Careful what you wish for. I believe it’s in the first book* of Wheel of Time that suddenly there's a group of "darkfriends"** (basically worshippers of the ultimate evil) who all speak in a dialect that sounds like they're from rural Georgia.

Even with Rosamund Pike doing a fantastic job reading the audio book, that was immersion breaking as fuck 😂

*Second book

** not all darkfriends, see reply below

Monsters, Inc. Fairy trailer trash with a southern accent. You're welcome.

Theres not enough guns in Fantasy stories to warrant a redneck accent

Ever been to Tennessee? You really don't want that lol

Dwarves in the Dragon Age universe have an US-American accent.

Definitely listen to the audible book The Hum and the Shiver it has fairies in the Appalachian mountains and definitely has red-neck voiced fairies.

guess they missed True Blood

Has nobody here seen The Wizard of Oz?

An elf with a heavy Southern California accent.

So you want Neil Stephen's American gods? got it

British Scottish Welsh (Irish is complicated)?

I have English being conflated with British but never the other way round.

I have no idea how I feel about this

Aye reckon

Because Tolkien.

They made at least one "southern fantasy" show, it was called Man in the High Castle based on work by American fantasy writer Phillip K Dick.

At least for sci-fi, they banged themselves out of the gene pool

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And I thought there was a remark about the suspiciously missing foreign accents in there... I was disappointed

My last character was an orphan (or course), taken in by a dwarf clan, where he worked alongside them in the mines. So, naturally, he was Appalachian

Two hick PCs in the current Critical Role cast.

I'm imaginig everyone just speaking erasmus english

Who the fuck decided most Japanese anime need to take place in Japan and have Japanese people?

Why did so many American superhero movies take place in NY City in America, and they're all American?

Why do Indian Bollywood movies take place in India and have Indians in them?

Fantasy genres made by British people are going to have, surprise surprise, similar people to their culture. People act like if you criticize a show for this, you're racist. How about you just worry about if the story and characters are entertaining to watch/read about?

What a gross crop

Only an American would do something like that, but because most Americans can't read...