History Main / TrrrillingRrrs

* Could be a drinking game in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings.'' Sophisticated characters, like wizards and elves, will have a great go at this; more rustic folk like Hobbits just won't bother. "Morrrdorrr," "A Balrrog of Morrrgoth," "Isildurr's Heirr," etc.
** See the Literature entry below for background on this.

** In Old and Middle English, the "r" was invariably trilled, but come Shakespeare's time the trill had largely disappeared and today only survives in a few dialects of Modern English, most notably Scots as mentioned below.

* The weak English "r" sound is actually quite rare among languages. The "r" is trilled in Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Finnish, and certain dialects of Norwegian and Swedish. Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Welsh and some Portuguese dialects have both a tapped "r" and a trilled "rr". The trilled "r" appears in dialects of other languages, such as Scottish English and Wenglish. French and German speakers don't normally trill the "r", but instead pronounce it at the back of the throat.

* The weak English "r" sound is actually quite rare among languages. The "r" is trilled in Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Finnish, and certain dialects of Norwegian and Swedish. Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and some Portuguese and Welsh dialects have both a tapped "r" and a trilled "rr". The trilled "r" appears in dialects of other languages, such as Scottish English and Wenglish. French and German speakers don't normally trill the "r", but instead pronounce it at the back of the throat.

* The weak English "r" sound is actually quite rare among languages. The "r" is trilled in Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Finnish, and certain dialects of Norwegian and Swedish. Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and some Portuguese dialects have both a tapped "r" and a trilled "rr". The trilled "r" appears in dialects of other languages, such as Scottish English. French and German speakers don't normally trill the "r", but instead pronounce it at the back of the throat.

Usually the [[EvilIsHammy Hammy]] {{Evil Overlor|d}}rrd will constantly rrroll his tongue. Forrreign people arrre also frrreqently porrrtrrrayed in media to speak like this. This is occasionally {{justified|trope}} because the Rrr is prrronounced like this in severrral languages and dialects (think Slavic language in generrral, Italian, Dutch, Afrrrikaans, most Norrrdic countrrries, some Gerrrman and [[VampireVords Trrransylvanian]] dialects, Scots, and cerrrtain Spanish worrrds), otherrr than in English. Also frrrequently employed when the speakerrr is rrrelated to felines in some way, imitating a cat's purrring.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Osgood Conklin on occasion, just to be all the [[BigHam more pompous.]]

In UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, it's a marrrkerrr of a) being rrreallyyy angrrry orrr intentionally rrruude; b) of being a JapaneseDelinquent such as a ''UsefulNotes/{{bosozoku}}'' or ''yankii''; orrr c) someone trrrying to imitate one.

* Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} tends to do this.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Parodied in Limozeen's hair metal cover of Sloshy's emo hit song "We Don't Really Even Care About You." At one point, Larry Palaroncini sings "We don't rrreally even care," but a minute later changes it to the tongue-twisting "Rrre rrron't rrreally rrreven care!"

* The weak English "r" sound is actually quite rare among languages. The "r" is trilled in Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Greek, and certain dialects of Norwegian and Swedish. Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and some Portuguese dialects have both a tapped "r" and a trilled "rr". The trilled "r" appears in dialects of other languages, such as Scottish English. French and German speakers don't normally trill the "r", but instead pronounce it at the back of the throat.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'': Rudolf von Stroheim says "Bakamono ga" (You utter fool) by inserting lots of R's in between, turning it into "'''BRRRRRRRRRAKAMONO GA!!!'''" (followed by the memetic "German Science is the best in the world!")
** Later in ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', during the deadly poker game with Daniel J. D'arby, Jotaro plans to raise the pot once again despite seemingly having no more chips. Prompting D'arby to go "Rrrrrrrr-raise the pot?!"

* In ''Series/GreetingsFromTuscon'', a whole episode focuses primarily on the fact that one of the daughters can't roll her r's despite [[PositiveDiscrimination being Hispanic]].

* Two words: Music/NinaHagen. Then she goes and covers a Rammstein song, and turns the trilling UpToEleven by rolling an R for ''an entire measure''.

* ''WebVideo/AnalystBroniesReact'': Thespio has tons of fun with how Chinch says "reputation", and takes it UpToEleven.

* Brazilian sportscaster Galvão Bueno ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTadK9p14A yeah, that Galvão]]) is a great fan of Ronaldo, I mean, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykxp-EDF-Cc RRRONALDINHO!]] (Anyone who parodies him turns his "Rs" UpToEleven). His usage of the trope regarding Usefulnotes/FormulaOne driver Rubens Barrichello was referenced and parodied in a commercial where a sandal saleslady is excited to meet ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEaBu5MCLpo Rrrrrrubinho]]!''