It's hard to imagine any other actor than Viggo Mortensen playing Aragorn in Peter Jackson's beloved Lord of the Rings trilogy. But, in fact, another actor was cast in the crucial role of Middle Earth ...

Technically, Stuart Townsend did make it to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, in the sense that he was actually cast as Aragorn — and rehearsed and trained for two months — only to be let go the day ...

-And you have my bow. -And my ax. ETHAN ALTER: Viggo, for you, it's 20 years of "Fellowship of the Ring" this December. You came into it late though. There's another actor who was playing Aragorn at ...

It's hard to imagine any other actor than Viggo Mortensen playing Aragorn in Peter Jackson's beloved Lord of the Rings trilogy. But, in fact, another actor was cast in the crucial role of Middle Earth ...