HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

I think the Baratheons may have been raised separately, Robert was a ward of Jon Aryn with Ned Stark.

oh hmm. but then why do robert and ned both have pronounced northern accents given that they were raised in the vale

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.

lol @ accent talk, just accept that there's nothing systematic about their damn accents and move on (NERRRRDS) (sorry)

*pushes up glasses*

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/a/a2/Harrenhal_bath_by_cabepfir.jpg

The discrepancy between the Stark kids can be sort-of handwaved away because some of them would have been closely brought up by Catelyn.

He is. Also just found out Conleth Hill aka Varys is Irish too, and a Nordie at that.

show has proven to be quite a boon for Irish character actors

dear image above: wtf?

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ASOIAF are crepes.

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*fans

ok so help me out

ned stark
real accent - sheffield
show accent - sheffield

catelyn stark
real accent - north irish
show accent - "southern" (????)

robb stark
real accent - scottish
show accent - generic northern

jon snow
real accent - ??
show accent - generic northern

arya stark
real accent - ??
show accent - "southern" (??)

sansa stark
real accent - ??
show accent - "southern" (??)

brann stark
real accent - ??
show accent - "southern" (??)

robert baratheon
real accent - yorkish
show accent - yorkish

cersei baratheon
real accent - ? ("home countries"? "RP"?)
show accent - same

tywin lannister
real accent - ? ("actor"? "home countries"? "RP"?)
show accent - same

tyrion lannister
real accent - american
show accent - vague ("RP"?) english

jaime lannister
real accent - danish
show accent - vague english

joffrey baratheon
real accent - irish (cork?)
show accent - english

already exhausted tbh

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.

Petyr Baelish
real accent - irish
show accent - fuck knows

Arya has a slight twang to her accent which I can't quite identify - maybe west country?

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.

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.

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 12:28 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

cor ur not wrong she makes most of the royal famalam sound like oiks

Her parents have two castles!

that's the trouble with castles, one is never enough

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, May 1, 2013 7:30 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she's from somerset (so... yes? right?)

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.

http://media.rightmove.co.uk/51k/50090/37523146/50090_3482_IMG_09_0000_max_620x414.JPG
http://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.

Given all that I'm assuming the difference in Stark accents is deliberate
I never bothered reading any more into this than "the children couldn't do Yorkshire accents". They all use their real accents.

yeah ygritte's voice is dead sexy

She might be rich as hell, but she's still Scottish. To the maid's quarters/caves of the North with you

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.

Undergraduate students are already tackling these important issues of accent!
http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-1882.html

Excellent Rose Leslie / Ygritte accent action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPdPTY_-icQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPdPTY_-icQ

Haha, she's posher than Kate Middleton.

Inordinately amused that someone is referring to her as Cersei Baratheon.

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

bravo

Are they all Ned? :(

One is W.

It's Dallas, and she's not from here. They might all be W.

awesome

are they red velvet cake inside? that would be an awesome finishing touch

I'll ask my wife.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nor/3725685022.html
I'm looking for a Stark in the streets but a wildling in the sheets.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/1459d64c64ced1c3fe7f7126c0c53ec5/tumblr_mm8llvNmHe1qcbs47o1_500.jpg

Oops, maybe that should go into the spoiler thread.

Nah, I don't think that it's too spoilerific to reveal that GRRM hasn't actually completed the series yet tbh

Ros ;_;

http://i.imgur.com/SjH3Gg6.jpg

too subtle?

Oooooh

Ros ;_;

otm. TT_TT

Also rmde @ Loras being all into weddings and brocade.

Meera vs. Osha was awesome though.