One user wrote: "Vigo Mortensen as Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. "Stuart Townsend was cast, hired and flown out to New Zealand. on the first day of filming Jackson fired him.

The actor originally cast as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings was fired on the first day of filming and replaced by an ...

Director Peter Jackson and the other executives behind the trilogy had originally settled on Stuart Townsend for the role of Aragorn. Townsend was already in New Zealand preparing to film scenes ...