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TIL Viggo Mortenson was offered to reprise his role in The Hobbit films. He asked, “You do know, don’t you, that Aragorn isn’t in The Hobbit? That there is a 60-year gap between the books?” Apparently, after that the filmmakers didn’t even formally offer Mortensen the chance to return.

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