Article: Riding high; `Rings' ' Viggo Mortensen saddles up in cowboy adventure `Hidalgo'.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: STEPHEN SCHAEFER

To fans around the world, there is no other king.

Thanks to his role as Aragorn in the box-office hit, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," the third and final chapter in J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, Viggo Mortensen is now ruler of his own movies. For proof, just look at the poster for "Hidalgo" (opening Friday), where his is the only name, the only face selling this epic family adventure in the "Indiana Jones" mold.

After a film career that modestly began with a bit part in Harrison Ford's "Witness," Mortensen might be expected to go the route of Bruce Willis or Charlie Sheen and parlay the attention for all ...

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