"Who played Aragorn in the film ""Lord of the Rings""?"
Aragorn the 1981 BBC Radio serial of "The Lord of the Rings". Kari Väänänen portrayed him in the 1993 Finnish television miniseries "Hobitit". 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
The Lord of the Rings (film series) time, who called it "a masterful piece of filmmaking." The film series provoked both positive and negative reaction from fans and scholars of the novels, and was sometimes seen as changing parts Tolkien felt thematically necessary in terms of characters, themes, events and subtlety. Some fans of the book who disagreed with such changes have released fan edits of the films such as "The Lord of the Rings: The Purist Edition", which removed many of the changes to bring them closer to the original. Various changes to characters such as Gandalf, Aragorn, Arwen, Denethor, Faramir, Gimli, and Frodo, when considered