[NancyBrooke]

there was Stuart Townsend, now starring in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Have you seen footage from this? it's pretty cool looking and ST comes off as a credible warrior with an intense (if somewhat snide) edge. I wonder if things had gone forward with LOTR if we would have had such a sensitive and emotional Aragorn as Viggo has given us? Pretty sure he would have kicked ass and looked good doing it, though.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/lxg/clips/

check out particularly "I'm complicated" and "We'll be at this all day"

[Scribe]

Townsend was the only good thing I enjoyed about Queen of the Damned, sure as hell ran circles around the Tom Cruise potrayal of Lestat in my opinion. However, as for LOTR, he was simply too young to potray Aragorn for it to be credible. I'm a fan as far as he's concerned but just not as Aragorn. Viggo nailed the role as his own and I couldn't imagine anyone else doing it.

[dolarabee]

I'm pretty sure Stuart Townsend's range as an actor can be as good as Viggo. His Aragorn might have been somewhat different emotionally, that we will never know, but I'm sure he would have made a decent job of it.

As Scribe pointed out, it was ST's age that prompted PJ to look for an alternative. And I agree with him. Stuart is simply too young to play Aragorn's part in the War of the Ring timescale. Might have been brilliant as a younger Estel though...

do.