Hollywood tries to depict the region as uneducated, dirty, and inbred - while the truth is that the residents of the mountains are indescribably their own and mysterious - they could not be unintelligent, as it takes a great deal of intelligence to be efficient enough in the mountain forests to establish a permanent residence there. If they were to leave an impression on someone travelling through, it would be that of an elf or a gnome, and not of a dumb uneducated mongoloid