character voices!

Hawkeye talks very fast, slightly nasal, and also just a lot. here's a sampling.

MeTV Presents The Best of 'Hawkeye' Pierce

he also has just. the best laugh.

gosh it's true, he talks so quickly

I never know how to get across in text the way hawkeye just goes when he starts talking

god I love Hawkeye, I used to stay awake when I was younger and watch MASH at 1am

I had to go to therapy but I am back now let's talk about Faramir's voice. for which there are no references because he does not sound all that much like David Wenham.

he's grim. and stern. and honestly there's very little description of how he actually sounds beyond that so I get free rein for headcanons.

I do agree with 6LilacMimeLions that he's probably a tenor

He's kind of the opposite of Hawkeye in how he talks - although he uses a lot of words, he doesn't talk fast, and he definitely doesn't rush through staccato phrasing like that. He basically talks like he's reciting poetry or giving oration, a lot of the time - which only makes his formal way of speaking more noticeable.

There's some suggestion that Sindarin is a partially tonal language, and as Faramir is a. bilingual and b. from a society where Sindarin was historically the first language, I choose to believe that he lilts

not a lot, but there's definitely more tonal variation than average when he speaks. honestly, in my mind, he sounds almost Welsh.

he's also a pretty good singer, because of course he is

...honestly you know what is coming into my mind? for a person who is not actually that much like Faramir in any other way, Michael Sheen's voice (when he talks slower) fits bizarrely well

"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Tho...

or like a higher-pitched richard burton. so what i'm saying is basically "welsh shakespearean actor"

no i changed my mind faramir's michael sheen and denethor's richard burton

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight. By Dylan Thoma...

he's tolkien's mary sue of course he's a tenor

heroes are always tenors, that's just the convention of western opera

nts: add faramir to emily's opera recruitment quest

(how does opera work with the magic translation? idk it just fucking does)

the alternative is that we go whole hog on him being tolkien's self-insert and say he sounds like this, which would be hilarious

Earliest Voice Recording of J.R.R. Tolkien 1929 - En...

including the discussion of cigarettes and pipe tobacco, of course

(he's 37 in this recording so he's even the right age)

6LilacMimeLions how does anything work with the magic translation?

conlang opera tho

taps temple