I feel you on the accent thing, it crops up sometimes in Hobbit fic and it always pulls me out a bit(especially in one memorable case where the written dialogue for two characters gave them accents they don't have).
But to be fair though sometimes an author can pull it off and make it work, but most of the time it doesn't for me.
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But to be fair though sometimes an author can pull it off and make it work, but most of the time it doesn't for me.