“I saw LOTR when I was 11 and the entire course of my life shifted when he put out a candle with his bare hand. Cordega, that moment was one of the first, at his introduction in the Prancing Pony. For him, it was telling the King of Rohan to ride out and face the orcs.įor Linda H. Vilas-Boas, like a lot of people, also mentioned a specific moment emblematic of Aragorn’s all-encompassing Noble Hotness. “There’s layers to the hotness: onscreen external physicality but also the meta-notion/fan-maxim that Viggo left it all on the field for them.” Intarasuwan also noted how that compassion also seems to radiate from Viggo himself in interviews and public appearances out of character, something Observer entertainment editor Eric Vilas-Boas also notes. But his compassion and vulnerability make him a good leader and he naturally stepped up in that role.” That and the battle of Helm’s Deep were really turning points for him because he initially wasn’t ambitious and didn’t want to be king. When I think of Aragorn, I think of the scene where he consoles Boromir as he dies and then kissing him on the forehead. “He’s also kind, compassionate, not afraid to show his emotions and he respects women’s choices. “He has all the ‘traditional’ masculine attributes like strength, protectiveness, bravery but he’s not a bully,” said Kiki Intarasuwan across multiple tweets and DMs. Its great!- Chris, A Dinosaur Adult July 8, 2021 He is both rugged and gentle, humble and capable, affectionate but fierce in the face of adversity. Yes! I think it relates to how he tends to embody a kind of perfect (to me) masculinity.
Interested in this formative figure of Millennial youth, I asked a bunch of people over the internet what, specifically, makes Aragorn Hot, and I was delighted to find that fans weren’t merely interested in discussing his swarthiness, but his journey. Aragorn’s attractiveness, however? It has endured, smoldering on like the fires of Mount Doom. With the exception of Hidalgo, the actor almost unilaterally preferred arthouse films like A History of Violence or Eastern Promises, and starred in fewer and fewer movies going into the 2010s.Ĭompared with say, Orlando Bloom - who went on to be a go-to heartthrob in the early 2000s as Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean (ironically once again competing for attention with a grimy man nearly 20 years older than him) and in romantic dramas like Elizabethtown - the attractiveness of Mortensen’s characters was not a recurring theme in his career. After Lord of the Rings, Mortensen eschewed blockbusters almost entirely. In years prior, Mortensen was a regular supporting player with a career stretching back to the mid-’80s, and few breakout roles. This is not a judgment of Viggo Mortensen’s attractiveness (for the record: hot), but an observation in how his career trended before and after he played Aragorn. But what did we swoon over? His artful tobacco indulgence? His fierceness on Weathertop? His filthy nailbeds, affectionately closing the eyelids of the fallen Boromir ? The valor of a man who should be king, but refuses the call?Īragorn occupies a unique position in the canon of formative crushes in blockbuster cinema in that he’s absolutely a sex symbol, while the actor who portrays him is absolutely not. One can almost hear Sir David Attenborough narrating: Observe, in a dark corner of the Prancing Pony, a man crosses his legs, smokes his pipe, and a generation of viewers swoon, helpless. So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. 2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story.
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