What a fascinating insight. Movie-Aragorn didn't *want* kingship, and there was no mention of there being any conditions on his and Arwen's love... but every act and decision of book-Aragorn's life was devoted to attaining kingship, and Arwen.
The two Aragorns seem v. different to me: movie!A is more brash, sensual, actually more like Boromir than like book!Aragorn. I think that he'd be good King Elessar, kind and beloved of his people, but I'm not sure about his gifts of forethought or wisdom (would be more dependent on Arwen for those abilities, maybe).
Book!A is all about patience and self-denial. He'd be wise and farseeing.
Maybe the movie personas can't help but be a little shallow compared to the book, which has such long stretches of time to work with.
Middle-Earth philosophy would have been a fun major!
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What a fascinating insight. Movie-Aragorn didn't *want* kingship, and there was no mention of there being any conditions on his and Arwen's love... but every act and decision of book-Aragorn's life was devoted to attaining kingship, and Arwen.
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Book!A is all about patience and self-denial. He'd be wise and farseeing.
Maybe the movie personas can't help but be a little shallow compared to the book, which has such long stretches of time to work with.
Middle-Earth philosophy would have been a fun major!
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Hobbit existentialism
Maybe a political science class on succession in Gondor
Linguistics classes and anthropology classes
Middle-Earth emersion classes for online survival!
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