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How do you think the 💀witch king looked and sounded like

herlig9

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From what i know. He is faceless in the book description with glowing eyes and a crown. So the 1980 cartoon got that right.
But here is some source i found on what his voice could feel like

(Then the Black Captain rose in his stirrups and cried aloud in a dreadful voice, speaking in some forgotten tongue words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone. (3))

(But it is said that when all was lost suddenly the Witch-king himself appeared, black-robed and black-masked upon a black horse. Fear fell upon all who beheld him; but he singled out the Captain of Gondor for the fullness of his hatred, and with a terrible cry he rode straight upon him. Eärnur would have withstood him; but his horse could not endure that onset, and it swerved and bore him far away before he could master it. ‘Then the Witch-king laughed, and none that heard it ever forgot the horror of that cry. But Glorfindel rode up then on his white horse, and in the midst of his laughter the Witch-king turned to flight and passed into the shadows. For night came down on the battlefield, and he was lost, and none saw whither he went (4))


... him sounding like Skeletor in the 1980 cartoon... is likely not what i imagine it to be. But what do you imagine Witch King to sound and look like?

Here is one illustration i found on Tolkien gateway that seems accurate
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He sounds like me when I am in hangover.

Joke aside... PJ interpretation with screams and whispering were always Ok-ish to me.. totally acceptable.

There is one sound also that reminds me on Nazguls (not Witch King specifically, but Nazguls).

Here on the 9th second, a Ziggurat building from the Warcraft 3 game.

It's really creepy... and sounds like a tortured souls, in the unseen realm where Nazgul existed.
 
He sounds like me when I am in hangover.

Joke aside... PJ interpretation with screams and whispering were always Ok-ish to me.. totally acceptable.

There is one sound also that reminds me on Nazguls (not Witch King specifically, but Nazguls).

Here on the 9th second, a Ziggurat building from the Warcraft 3 game.

It's really creepy... and sounds like a tortured souls, in the unseen realm where Nazgul existed.
Thats a good comparison. That sounds scary to me. If anything this makes me wanna reinstall classic Warcraft 3, that i have on Disc.
But yeah the video has some haunting voices of terrible dead sounding dreadful voice.

To me the voice that sounds closest to my imagination of Witch King in this video you posted is either "Necropolis" (horrible cry) or "Temple of the Damned" (Laugh) sound.
 

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