Posted on 08/31/2014 6:48:45 AM PDT by Perdogg
1. Nicolas Cage passed up the role of Aragorn because of “family obligations.”
2. Daniel Day-Lewis also turned down the role multiple times.
3. The same fight choreographer and fencer who worked on Lord of the Rings also worked on The Parent Trap and Star Wars.
4. And he said that Viggo Mortensen was “the best swordsman [he] ever trained.”
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Sigh. Sean Bean could NOT be Aragorn. His characters always have to die.
Sean Bean death reel - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sGR1-Wgo1M
That being said, Viggo didn’t do it for me as Aragorn, either. Eomer was perfect.
ROFL!!
In many ways I think that was the point...
After years of living the hard life of a Ranger, one would be humble and unassuming...
JMHO
LOL - that’s a good one!
Tolkien stole the Idea from Richard Wagners, Ring De Niebulungen.
And Yoko would have been the terrifying screech of the nazgul.
...kudos...
Wagner cribbed the plot from Germanic and Scandinavian legend. There aren’t that many plot similarities with Tolkien’s novels - just some general atmosphere.
A documentary I watched recently said that Tolkien was particularly influenced by the Finnish language and their national epic poem, the Kalevala.
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Poetic_Edda
Oh yes Wagner used the Legend of the Neibulungen for the Ring. But just very similar to Wagners opera.
I have to disagree with the Mortensen pick. This was the latest in a Iong line of kings, but there was nothing regal about Mortensen’s Aragorn.
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Totally agree! I have loved Mortensen in other roles (such as “A History of Violence”) but he was just miscast as Aragorn. He wasn’t rough and, frankly, frightening enough in his Strider persona, and I never bought him as the king in waiting. Daniel Day-Lewis would have been very good, I think, though he tends to ham things up. (Though at least we were spared Nicholas Cage!!! Yikes! LOL!)
The thing about Wood and McKellen not working together is just plain wrong.
LOL—yeah. I get a lot of names of hollywood types wrong...
Yes. And I really like Hugh Jackman a lot, too.
I didn’t like how they made Aragorn so emo.
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