viggo mortensen was aragorn in the lord of the rings.
viggo mortensen was aragorn in the lord of the rings.
who is aragorn in the lord of the rings?
viggo mortensen
in the "lord of the rings" film trilogy (2001–2003) directed by peter jackson, aragorn is played by danish-american actor viggo mortensen who took over the role from stuart townsend after four days of shooting because jackson felt townsend was too young for the role. in these movies, aragorn begins his journey with the fellowship with no desire to claim the kingship; he only arrives at such a decision in the third film after spending much time battling his own self-doubt. this specific element of self-doubt is not present in tolkien's book, where aragorn intends to claim the throne from the time he enters the story, with the additional motivation that he must do so to marry arwen. another notable difference in jackson's films is that aragorn does not at first wield andúril. instead he uses a different, unnamed sword throughout the first two films and receives his ancestor's reforged sword in the third film. mortensen's portrayal of aragorn won him the title of 15th greatest movie characters of all time (in 2015) by "empire".
aragorn
aragorn learns from elrond that arwen is dying, having refused to leave middle earth after seeing a vision of her son with aragorn. elrond gives aragorn andúril, isildur's sword narsil reforged, so he can reclaim his birthright while gaining reinforcements from the dead men of dunharrow. joined by legolas and gimli, aragorn travels to the paths of the dead, recruiting the army of the dead by pledging to release them from the curse isildur put on them. faramir is gravely wounded after a futile effort to retake osgiliath; believing his son to be dead, denethor falls into madness. gandalf is left to defend the city against the orc army, led by gothmog. as gothmog's army forces its way into the city, denethor attempts to kill himself and faramir on a pyre. pippin alerts gandalf and they save faramir, but a burning denethor leaps to his death from the top of minas tirith just before théoden and his nephew, éomer, arrive with the rohirrim. during the ensuing battle, they are overwhelmed by the oliphaunt-riding haradrim, while the witch-king mortally wounds théoden. though théoden's niece éowyn destroys the witch-king with merry's help, théoden succumbs to his wounds. aragorn arrives with the army of the dead, who overcome the orcs and win the battle; aragorn then frees them from the curse. aragorn decides to lead his army upon the black gate as a distraction, so frodo and sam can get to mount doom.
the lord of the rings: the return of the king