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Aragon speach in LOTR return of the king


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

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



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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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I agree!



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Seems to me he might have wrecked his voice from

1. chain smoking

and

2. his flamenco singing.

Just a theory, ofcourse. He might have always had a squeaky voice.

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