[bagster]

This article discusses who else was considered for the role of Aragorn in the LotR movies, you mentioned an interest in that:

Well that makes me sad in the pants. The only reason they replaced the perfect actor for the role is because he was too young and the same age as the hobbits? What in the name of Tom Bombadil?

Peter Jackson is an idiot who doesn't understand that Numenoreans, even in the third age, lived much longer than normal men. Hundreds of years, and hobbitses were lucky to reach 111. So Aragorn would have appeared younger for longer and would have been the perfect age compared to mere halflings.

So we got stuck with a SHORT, squeaky voiced, un-lordly, wimpy King who would have been better off NOT returning.

We Lord of the Rings fanatics understand these things, unlike Peter (late to the game) Jackson, who would have been better off sticking to bad King Kong remakes and eating Corsi style.

[Bob Ireland]

***So we got stuck with a SHORT, squeaky voiced, un-lordly, wimpy King who would have been better off NOT returning***

😲 Are you speaking of Viggo Mortensen? I am having some trouble getting my arms around this. While I admit to some doubts of him as Aragorn when I first saw him in the role, I was reminded that Aragorn spent all of his life - up to the point of his calling - rejecting his destiny as Sauron's foil in the steps of his ancestor, Isildur. He feared Isildur's entrapment by the Ring of Power.

In the end, it was as much desperate circumstances as it was Aragorn's embracing his destiny that cast him finally into accepting his prophecied role in ending the Third Age. We see his transition in accepting the re-forged blade, in calling up the obligation of the dead, in becoming Elessar, the healing king.

We know Aragorn has arrived and accepted his destiny as he rides before his diminished forces at the Morannon and calls upon the 'Men of the West' to fight a seemingly hopeless battle.

I agree that a different sort of actor might have played the role; but would a Schwarzenegger type have mastered the role as conceived?

[Melian]

And Townsend looked part elf, as well. I thought Viggo looked more man than elf.