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Megan Garside

Viggo Mortensen uses Aragorn's sword in his new movie, but had to ask Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson for permission first

Viggo Mortensen in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Viggo Mortensen has confirmed he uses Aragorn’s sword in his new movie which isn't a Lord of the Rings movie, it's actually a romantic western. 

The actor revealed in an interview with GQ that he uses the iconic sword in his latest flick The Dead Don’t Hurt, a 19th-century western which he himself wrote and directed. "We had everything for this sequence with a knight," Mortensen explained, "Everything was right, and then I said, well, we should have a sword. And I did look and there were some good ones and I thought, well, it might be kind of good to use [Aragorn’s sword] that I had because it’s really good."

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