Being a bad girl, I did not read ALL of the above......but, IMHO, anybody who cannot deal with a UK accent, or any other does not need to see the movie. I have just hated ALL visual representations of JRRT. Especially the cartoon version that came out 20 odd years ago. I have my own idea of what all these people look like, and I prefer to keep it, thank you very much. (orcs should have a Russian accent, trolls a Scandinavian, Gandalf a very upper class British, hobbits are Cockney, elves French, maybe the WoodElves get Irish, Ents are Slavic,,,,,,,ah, never mind.)