Viggo vs Evil Elf, a trip in the wayback machine

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Aragorny, eh?

Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but here’s a little something I wrote for North Country Public Radio back in 2002, when several crazy American strangers decided that nothing would make them happier than to fly me back East to meet a Danish-American movie star.

So they did.

There are so many reasons this trip is impossible. So many GOOD reasons. It IS impossible. But of course that has no bearing on the situation whatsoever; we are dealing with Americans here.

It must be pretty good; their previous record hits in a day was 700, and this went to 3500. When the hits are down, mention a Danish-American movie star, Beautiful Agony, Mango Porno, the blogs of murderous Goths, or, apparently, Foley‘s emails. Sure winners, every one. 

It could be some time before I’m back online (although, given that I’m in Ontario, it can be no more than fifteen seconds before I’m in the vicinity of yet another television with the volume up high) so this should tide you over till then. 24,000 words, if memory serves. Plus bonus photos!

4 thoughts on “Viggo vs Evil Elf, a trip in the wayback machine”

  2. Awww, thanks.

    ONE comment? When I posted this fucker at The One Ring.net it nearly blew the servers. O! How the mighty have fallen…or their fanbases moved on to Vincent D’Onofrio, etc.

  3. The biggest travesty in movie history was casting whiney voiced Viggo Mortician as the fabulous Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I know this, I read the books BEFORE the movie was even thought of, and I’m writing from Middle Earth. That is where I live, that is where I was born, yet I am not a hobbit. Aragorn is blonde folks and butch and manly and powerful and FROM MIDDLE EARTH. Which is NOT America or any where near it. Sheffield is close enough. It should have been the Bean.

  4. We must agree to disagree.

    Bean couldn’t have pulled off the moral dilemma. He specializes in butch parts; don’t get me wrong, he’s great in them, but Aragorn was not the part for him.

    Viggo’s performance wasn’t without flaws; far from it. But he got the most important part of the role, which was the man struggling to rise to his destiny.

    I hope you’re not saying nobody but an Englishman could have played the role, cuz that would be, for lack of a better term, racist. And I don’t think Tolkien would approve.

    But he shoulda had a better accent, tis true.

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