answers: Viggo Mortensen
context: the 1981 BBC Radio serial of "The Lord of the Rings". Kari Väänänen portrayed him in the 1993 Finnish television miniseries "Hobitit". In the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy (2001–2003) directed by Peter Jackson, Aragorn is played by Danish-American actor Viggo Mortensen who took over the role from Stuart Townsend after four days of shooting because Jackson felt Townsend was too young for the role. In these movies, Aragorn begins his journey with the Fellowship with no desire to claim the kingship; he only arrives at such a decision in the third film after spending much time battling his </s> his book "The King of the North: the life and times of Oswald of Northumbria" Tolkien based Aragorn on Oswald, a prince of the Northumbrian royal house exiled to the Kingdom of Dál_Riata after Cadwallon King of Gwynedd and Penda King of Mercia laid waste to his ancestral homelands, and who returned years later with a raised army of Anglian exiles and retook his kingdom slaying Cadwallon in the process. Aragorn was voiced by John Hurt in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film version of "The Lord of the Rings". Bakshi's Aragorn, unlike all other portrayals that were to follow to </s> exiles of Númenor who ruled over the people of "Ond" (the early name of Gondor) but were driven out by the Witch King "when Sauron raised a rebellion". The story of the two branches of Elendil's descendants ruling over two kingdoms of Men through many generations only emerged gradually; at one time, Tolkien even seems to have conceived only three generations between Isildur and Aragorn. Aragorn's relationship with Arwen was established very late in the writing. When Tolkien first introduced Éowyn, the interest she showed towards Aragorn was not one-sided, with suggestions in notes that they would marry at the
question: who is aragorn in the lord of the rings