@meljoann Oh yeah I get it. Honestly though, for audiobooks, I'm sure I'm in the minority but I'd prefer them to not do accents at all. The book describes the voice (whether explicitly or not), I don't need the reader to *do* a voice. It often just jars with how I think the voice should sound.

@meljoann Same in video games and films.

It's been a thing forever but I think the LotR films really coalesced it as a cultural thing.

Anyone with 'noble blood', elves, wizards, protagonists, sophisticated people = posh english

Orcs & Goblins, criminals, the low-status untrustworthy = working class london

Simple/rural/bucolic folk = south-west rural england

Stupid/naive people, comic relief = northern england and the midlands

And dwarves = scottish of course.