re: Viggo Mortensen apparently really is Aragorn

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Elric of Melniboné

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That’s a weird world. Would love to see that done but afraid it would have to be lightened up to have broad appeal.

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Peter Jackson realized a couple of days into filming he had cast the wrong actor to play Aragorn

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who was this??

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Stuart Townsend

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I remember this from, I dunno, Ain't It Cool News or something like that. Casting announced.

I cringed

Aragon was supposed to look very very very weather beaten to the point that he outright frightened people. He even tells the hobbits it would take many years living outside for them to even approach how “foul” he looks.

Needless to say, no movie studio was ever going to go in for that look

impressive man, impressive actor. They don’t make them like him anymore

Happens right after the hobbits meet him and then when they see him in rivendale, they find him almost unrecognizable

The "looking foul, but feeling fair" line is included in the Extended Edition, I think.

Ok, I still don’t see how that equals

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Aragon was supposed to look very very very weather beaten to the point that he outright frightened people. He even tells the hobbits it would take many years living outside for them to even approach how “foul” he looks.

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and it doesn’t say he’s foul looking, just that the hobbits think he could be fairer. I never visualized Aragorn as an ugly guy.

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I didn't either. I think the Bashki version didn't help, but Tolkien's discussions of Aragorn in LOTR did not present him as ugly, only weathered and worn by his years and activities leading the Rangers in the North.

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I never saw Clint Eastwood, but I did imagine someone along the lines of The Man With No Name. Weathered, road-weary, like that.

Viggo at the Prancing Poney in Bree is a good representation of what I imagined. Ruggedly handsome, and could stand to go through the car wash a couple times