Although Viggo was <B>not</B> the Aragorn I knew from the books (shock! horror! fangirl attack! ), this comes mostly from the weakening of many characters by the writers. Viggo knew the movieAragorn better than the bookAragorn and played him accordingly.<P>Now that we have all three movies as a complete whole of the one story (woohoo!!) it is easier to see the development of Aragorn throughout. The more I see the movies, the more I like movieAragorn and Viggo Mortensen. I hope that in the extended edition of ROTK we see more of him. I think it was unfortunate that the score was kind of shouting over top of his stirring speech at the Black Gate. It sounded much better when they were recording it on the stillness of the desert in front of Mt Ngauruhoe, even after a dozen takes.<P>Viggo's song was just perfect. Personally, I thought that the final mix of Pippin's song was made too poppy, and I didn't really care for <I>Gollum's Song</I> or <I>Into the West</I>. But Viggo (and Enya) did an incredible job of holding the audience's attention, when it would have been quite easy to lose many viewers. His voice was perfect, and the song melded seamlessly into the world of Middle-Earth.
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But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name'.
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