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Originally Posted by Morthoron
But I didn't care for it, personally. No sir. Underwhelmed would be an understatement. The Maori chants do not mesh well with the dwarvish character I have come to know from the books; in fact, aboriginal chanting seems out of place in a high culture like the Naugrim (after all, we know the poetic meter and musical instrumentation of the dwarves directly from The Hobbit).
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Agreed about the chanting. That brings to mind more of a Ghân-buri-Ghân feel for me.
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Originally Posted by Morthoron
I also think the reedy nature of Neil Finn's voice does not project as inherently doughty and dwarvish - he looks and sounds more like a hobbit. It recalls for me any of the failed Chris DeBurgh or Al Stewart epic songs of the 70s and 80s. "A Spaceman Came Traveling" or "Don't Pay the Ferryman" anyone?  |
Don't be knocking Al Stewart, now,
Morth. I'll bombard your PM Box with "Old Admirals".
Finn's voice almost makes me think of a slicker, modern version of
this. Not really the sort of comparison they'd be going for, I'm thinking.
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Originally Posted by Morthoron
I could have chosen ten to twenty other performers who could have composed a better song. I was rather moved by the performances of Enya and Annie Lennox in the previous movies. Not so here.
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Enya has always to me complemented
LOTR, even before PJ used her stuff in
LOTR. I'm not sure how she would have done for what's supposed to be a simpler, more earthy story though.