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All three became available again as of Mon 16 March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the distant past, if you had been offered a role in The Lord of the Rings, you&#8217;d have thought twice about it too: a long, outdoorsy shoot on the other side of the world, for a relatively untested director, (presumably) not a huge amount of up-front payment and no guarantee of not being a laughing stock at the end of it, especially if you had to have a giant prosthetic nose and ramble on about wargs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet the cast who eventually signed on the dotted line had a whale of a time by all accounts, not to mention an enormously successful trilogy on their CV. In some cases, the fun even went on for a further three films when Peter Jackson came back for&nbsp;<em>The Hobbit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we&#8217;re here to see how things could have been. These are just some of the actors who were offered roles in&nbsp;<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, but said no\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Nicolas Cage \u2013 Aragorn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464082736-aragorn-cage-touchstone-pictures-jerry-bruckheimer-films.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption> <em>TOUCHSTONE PICTURES NEW LINE CINEMA<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Aragorn and Neo in&nbsp;<em>The Matrix<\/em>&nbsp;(another role he turned down), Cage said, &#8220;I probably would have benefited from [the roles] if circumstances in my life allowed me to make them.&#8221; Make of that what you will. He divorced his first wife, Patricia Arquette, the year the<em>&nbsp;Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>&nbsp;came out, if that means anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Russell Crowe \u2013 also Aragorn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464082849-aragorn-crowe.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption><em> NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The producers offered him 10% of the profits, but Russ wanted an upfront fee. Oh well, he only missed out on \u00a356 million. &#8220;If I had taken that film, I wouldn&#8217;t be here,&#8221; he told a student audience at Durham University, which you could definitely read as shade on the fine city of Durham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Daniel Day-Lewis \u2013 yes,\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>another<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0Aragorn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464083045-aragorn-day-lewis-wenn.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption><em> WENN NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The king of method acting (how would&nbsp;<em>that<\/em>&nbsp;have worked in Middle-earth?) reportedly turned the role down three times. And even he wasn&#8217;t the last: Stuart Townsend was famously cast for five minutes before Peter Jackson realised he&#8217;d made a mistake and replaced him with Viggo Mortensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Lucy Lawless \u2013 Galadriel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464088609-galadriel-strarz-evertt.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption><em> STARZ\/EVERTT NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see the logic: she&#8217;s a New Zealander, so casting her would save on air fare and accommodation, and she has built-in genre appeal after starring as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/ustv\/feature\/a666508\/xena-warrior-princess-where-are-lucy-lawless-and-the-cast-now\/\">Xena, everyone&#8217;s favourite warrior princess<\/a>. According to reports, Lucy was Peter Jackson&#8217;s first choice for elf queen Galadriel, but sadly she became pregnant at the wrong time for the back-to-back filming schedule, so that was that. Well, we say sadly, but not for her: she had a baby, and most people prefer those to jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5. Sean Connery \u2013 Gandalf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464089052-gandalf-connery-kevin-mazur-wireimage.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption><em> KEVIN MAZUR\/WIREIMAGE NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You knew about this one, right? Everyone&#8217;s heard of this one. Apparently Sean &#8220;never understood the script&#8221;, so he turned down \u00a34m per movie plus a 15% profit share. He didn&#8217;t understand&nbsp;<em>LOTR<\/em>, but he did understand&nbsp;<em>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/em>? (If he can explain&nbsp;<em>TLOEG<\/em>&nbsp;to us, we&#8217;d love to hear it if it saves us watching it again.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6. Christopher Plummer \u2013 also Gandalf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464089389-gandalf-plummer-cfocus-everett-rex.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption><em> C.FOCUS\/EVERETT\/REX NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plummer told Conan O&#8217;Brien that while he was indeed offered the role, the thought of three or four years in New Zealand was the dealbreaker for a man then already in his 70s: &#8220;I thought there are other countries I&#8217;d like to visit before I croak.&#8221; He&#8217;s still with us and still working, so he could have fitted it in, it turns out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7. Liam Neeson \u2013 Boromir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464089745-boromir-lg.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption><em> LG NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details on this one are a little sketchy, so let&#8217;s file it under woulda, coulda, shoulda. &#8220;I have a particular set of skills\u2026 and a big ancestral horn.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8. Uma Thurman \u2013 Arwen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464090219-arwen-getty.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption><em> GETTY NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I wish I had done it,&#8221; Uma later said. &#8220;I had a small child at the time, and I couldn&#8217;t go away for a year&#8230; Oh, I truly wish I could&#8217;ve been able to take that plunge, and maybe I should have, but I just couldn&#8217;t at the time.&#8221; Her loss was Liv Tyler&#8217;s gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9. Ethan Hawke \u2013 Faramir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464090808-faramir-wenn.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption><em> WENN NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no hard evidence to back this one up, but Hawke&#8217;s name came up a lot in reference to Boromir&#8217;s ill-favoured brother before the films went into production. But the gig went to Kiwi actor David Wenham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10. Alison Doody \u2013 Eowyn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464107802-eowyn-getty.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption><em> GETTY IMAGES NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Who&#8217;s Alison Doody?&#8221; Her from\u00a0<em>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/em>, that&#8217;s who. 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Kevin Conway \u2013 Th\u00e9oden<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net\/16\/21\/1464108406-theoden-getty.jpg?resize=480:*\" alt=\"image\"\/><figcaption> <em>GETTY IMAGES NEW LINE CINEMA <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The simbelmyne. Ever has it grown on the graves of my fathers\u2026&#8221; Bernard Hill&#8217;s maybe, Kev. 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