hehehe! I'll take Johnny any day dodgy accent and all ;P

Actually the non brit LOTR tpes did well with the accents I think it helped that mostly they didn't try for any particular accent ('cept maybe Sam) but rather just tried to avoid their own American/Kiwi/Aussie accents being obvious.

And more Stephen Fry can only be a good thing, looking forward to seeing him as Sherlock Holmes ;-D