Any film auditions many actors and actresses for various roles before settling on the final cast. Peter Jackson’s epic trilogies of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit are no exceptions.
The alternative actors that were considered vary from the intriguing to the incredulous. Sometimes actors turned down the roles, sometimes the actors were turned away.
It’s hard to imagine an improvement on (or an alternate to) the cast who we have seen in Jackson’s master pieces, but the following are who apparently might have been ...