😲 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?
Great stuff here if you have not seen it well worth watching:
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/catherine-austin-fitts-2nd-full-interview-planet-lockdown/
Explains it all.
Thank you for that assessment of Aragorn. I will read to SH. We always hated Viggo M in the role, now re-thinking. I read LOTR many times, first time as a teenager. Wanted to live there. Still do.
I will say this in Mortensen’s defense.
Would any of the other actors been able to do this?
Another actor might have died and disrupted the filming.
Viggo Mortensen Deflects a Real Knife!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozzO5b_3HMc