Is Aragorn as you pictured him?

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

One of the downsides of being young and watching the movies first because you couldn't read something of the awesome power as LotR, you start picturing Viggo as Aragorn... it really sucks! But I love the mysterious Aragorn, in fact sometimes Aragorn for me isn't even Viggo at all, but someone I cannot describe!

[Gwathagor]

I never pictured Aragorn with long hair. Shaggy, yes. Long, no. I also envisioned him as being significantly less greasy. And taller and leaner.

I had the good fortune to read the books first.

[Sauron the White]

From head to toe, the look of Aragorn in the films was extremely consistent with how a person would look having spent long periods of time in the wilds. Such social conventions as having ones hair properly cut and trimmed, or frequently washed and styled, or having their clothes looks as if they just were ordered from the Minas Tirith branch of Nordstroms are not in keeping with the realistic look of the films. Once upon a time, many decades ago, Hollywood would have given Aragorn a perfectly crisply pressed and cleaned outfit, had his hair looking as if he just did a commercial for Breck shampoo, and made sure he was a good four inches taller than all those he came in contact with to make sure the audience got the idea that he was a king. Thankfully, Cecil B. DeMille and his like are no longer around to give us that sanitized, very unreal version of a hero.

[Volo]

Hmm... You're right, Sauron, but to me Aragorn still looked too clean and properly cut. The whole film shows that long hair was in fashion, so Aragorn was no dirty exeption. Movie Aragorn wasn't wild enough.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I like the fun side of Aragorn, the side where he laughs at jokes and in the Prancing Pony, there were times that he laughed and I liked that, he was a grim man yes, but he had to be, I of course like it when people are smiling a lot! So he needed more laugh lines!
That's my opinion!

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I think the casting of Viggo as Aragorn was spot on. He's just as I had imagined him: grim, resolute, serious and with the weight of the world on his shoulders, as he knows he has to accomplish more than anyone has done before to get what he desires, and that he's very unlikely to succeed. The extended interplay between Arwen and Aragorn was also great to better understand his character and what drove him on, although they meddled with the background story a bit too much. Viggo's rugged good looks and sword fighting skills are also fitting I'd say.

Whether he's tall enough is a small concern to me.

[Gwathagor]

Actually, a good hunter would clean himself regularly (e.g. bathe in stream) to reduce his scent, thereby making it more difficult for him to be detected by his quarry. The Native Americans, for example, were very conscientious about being clean before they went hunting; the sweat-lodge was part of this process. Aragorn, as we all know, was one of the greatest hunters of that time period in Middle-earth. It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that he would have managed his grime-levels better than he did in the films. He certainly did not have the same gritty, modernist sensibility that Jackson and Co. do, and would have had no qualms about tidying up whenever possible. (In fact, he probably thought: "Gee, I'm an important protagonist here. I should be more presentable before I go into town/meet other important protagonists.") Certainly he wouldn't have been impeccably clean; but you see my point.

[Mithalwen]

Viggo is not my idea of Aragorn but I accepted him as Aragorn in the films - his first appearance at Bree was one of the few things that tallied with my mental image. However Daniel Day Lewis is much closer to my mental image especially in this picture - though perhpas a little young

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