Without a doubt, everyone remembers how great Viggo was as Aragorn. Or what a beautiful performance Ian gave as Gandalf.

Sean Austin as Sam will never be forgotten.

Viggo is one of the most respected actors of his generation and the only reason why I think he never won an Oscar is because he had the bad luck to be nominated the same year as Daniel day Lewis.

Sean Bean as Boromir is wonderfully sympathetic and magnetic too, I doubt anyone questions it. Boromir's death is my favorite scene.

However, at the cost of sounding like a teenage fangirl (which I am not, I promise you), I'd like to praise Orlando Bloom's Legolas and John Rhys Davies' Gimli here.

Orlando is nowadays often dismissed as the hot guy who did silly faces on the background and was aura farming throughout the movie, even if at the time LOTR came out he was quite a revelation.

I think his reputation after KoH got in the way of enjoying his previous work.

His Legolas was amazing: luminous, adventurous, and sincere.…