Aragon speach in LOTR return of the king

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Viggo Mortensen

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John07544 — 9 years ago(April 12, 2016 09:00 AM)

His speach he does at the black gates of mordor, I personally thinks its the best speach in cinema history. I could watch that 100 of times.

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nzgl786 — 9 years ago(May 10, 2016 06:49 PM)

There's a tendency to have a great pre-battle speech a la LOTR-ROTK in every movie now. ROTK's speech is a take on Tolkien's Aragorn's dismissal one of the faint-hearted in the book.
http://www.henneth-annun.net/events_view.cfm?EVID=1149

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Valor03 — 9 years ago(June 12, 2016 09:31 AM)

I love it whenhe says "What Say You?" Reminds me of the older movies.

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Wplains01 — 9 years ago(July 09, 2016 04:20 AM)

It wasn't the best in the world. Mr. M. just doesn't have a powerful enough voice to carry it off. It broke amd wavered and ruined the whole effect, IMO.
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danloki — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 02:40 PM)

I didnt mind it, probably because I had such a crush on the character, but one of my brothers said the same as you, Wp. He said his voice was distractingly squeaky.

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Grimes357 — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 03:07 PM)

Oh dani, do confess! His voice was a bit nasely, but I thought the speech was fine.

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danloki — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 03:20 PM)

The speech itself was great, Grimes, and yes, he does have a nasally voice. He speaks in the back of his throat.

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Grimes357 — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 03:21 PM)

I agree!

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danloki — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 03:29 PM)

Seems to me he might have wrecked his voice from

1. chain smoking
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2. his flamenco singing.
   Just a theory, ofcourse. He might have always had a squeaky voice.

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Grimes357 — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 03:32 PM)

He does smoke a lot. I didn't know about his flamenco singing, LOL, what a hoot!

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danloki — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 03:38 PM)

I like it but it's an acquired taste. People were abusing him on the LotR yahoo group years ago about his singing. The guy is mult talented.

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Grimes357 — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 03:48 PM)

Yes I hear he's a poet and a photographer as well. Good for him!

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danloki — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 03:54 PM)

Renaissance man, like Mads Mikkelsen. Must be a viking thing. Those guys can do anything.

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Grimes357 — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 04:01 PM)

Yes,111c I do agree, and I do think Mads is from the same place as Viggo! I'm a big fan of both of them.

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Wplains01 — 9 years ago(August 17, 2016 02:13 AM)

Mr. M. can do a lot of things but singing is surely not one of them, lol. His voice is weak and has no range.
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Valor03 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 11:24 PM)

James Earl Jones Could have done it..he is certainly loud enough in those hamburger commercials.