Depending on the day you ask me, I might tell you that as much as I love the Lord of the Rings books, I may actually love The Hobbit even more. The Hobbit is a very different novel than Rings with a much different feel to it. To me it’s just more magical… there’s more a sense of adventure and wonder to it than in Rings… and like many fans, I’ve been DYING to see a big screen version of it ever since watching how well the Rings trilogy turned out.
There is a chance… however slight… that we could see Viggo Mortsensen as Aragorn back in the boots with the sword for a big screen version of “The Hobbit”. That would be interesting. “But John…” you may understandably ask “…Aragorn isn’t in The Hobbit, so how could that be?” Ahhh… a good question that Mortsensen answers himself when talking to MTV about the possibilities:
“I’m curious about it,” he told MTV News about his potential involvement in a long rumored “Hobbit” flick. “LOTR’ borrowed from other sources. There was dialogue and set pieces that came from work outside of ‘Lord of the Rings,’ or took from the appendices. You never know.”
Now keep in mind that Aragorn has some elf in him (Aragorn was a descendant of Elros Tar-Minyatur, Lord Elrond Half-elven’s twin brother) and doesn’t age like normal men. He is old…and therefore biologically he COULD be in The Hobbit without any problems on that level.
Personally… I could go either way on this. The Hobbit story dose not NEED Aragorn in it at all. It’s terrific all on its own. On the other hand, adding him in there without disrupting the spirit and flow of the story wouldn’t be difficult to do at all. It would just be a matter of taking liberties with the details of the story while maintaining the structure of the story intact. Good idea? Bad idea? If I was forced to choose… I’d say “NO”. Leave Aragorn out of it… but I’m open to the idea and recognize the merits of it:
– Aragorn is a great character, so having him in there would be good
– It would create a more tangible continuity with Lord of the Rings fans who only saw the movies and didn’t read the books
– Having Viggo Mortsensen in your movie is never a bad idea
Like I said, if it was up to me, would NOT have Aragorn in The Hobbit… but I wouldn’t complain either if they did it. What do you think? Would you put Aragoron in The Hobbit movie?
