Welcome to the Downs, Macphisto
I think the best part was Aragorn's speech outside the black gates, the sword-waving, aggitatedly riding up and down one ending with 'but not this day. This day we fight!" Frankly, after a speech like that,
I was quite ready to leap up and fight for him, so I don't know how the Rohirrim and Gondorian soldiers he was actually addressing must have felt!