Article: `Lord of the Rings' co-star Viggo Mortensen was late to the game.

Byline: Steven Rea

Viggo Mortensen walks into the room at New York's Waldorf-Astoria barefoot, like a hobbit, or like Peter Jackson, the director who cast Mortensen as the mysterious Aragorn, son of Arathorn, also known as Strider, in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and its subsequent installments.

"No, I'm not doing a hobbit thing or a Peter Jackson thing," Mortensen says amicably, referring to his unshod extremities. "I'm doing a Viggo Mortensen thing."

Mortensen, who made his film debut as an Amish farmer in Peter Weir's 1985 Harrison Ford thriller, "Witness," is a serious fellow who didn't win the assignment to play the ...

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