It's hard to imagine any other actor than Viggo Mortensen playing Aragorn in Peter Jackson's beloved Lord of the Rings trilogy. But, in fact, another actor was cast in the crucial role of Middle Earth ...

Technically, Stuart Townsend did make it to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, in the sense that he was actually cast as Aragorn — and rehearsed and trained for two months — only to be let go the day ...

-And you have my bow. -And my ax. ETHAN ALTER: Viggo, for you, it's 20 years of "Fellowship of the Ring" this December. You came into it late though. There's another actor who was playing Aragorn at ...

The Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen was a main player in one of the most successful film franchises ever, but he hasn't appeared in a "franchise" film sense. Why? He told Vanity Fair that he ...

Even before Russell Crowe won an Oscar for Best Actor for Gladiator, he was an in-demand performer near the turn of the century. That's right around the time when director Peter Jackson was putting ...

(AP) — Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics' movie adaptation of "Thor" because of creative differences, according to sources close to the production. Townsend had been cast as Fandral, an ally ...

It's hard to imagine any other actor than Viggo Mortensen playing Aragorn in Peter Jackson's beloved Lord of the Rings trilogy. But, in fact, another actor was cast in the crucial role of Middle Earth ...