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cup-of-starlight-waters · 1 year ago

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“Would it? Would any of you have believed me until now?” said Strider. “I knew nothing of this letter. For all I knew I had to persuade you to trust me without proofs, if I was to help you. In any case, I did not intend to tell you all about myself at once. I had to study you first, and make sure of you. The Enemy has set traps for me before now. As soon as I made up my mind I was ready to tell you whatever you asked. But I must admit,” he added with a queer laugh, “that I hoped you would take to me for my own sake. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. But there, I believe my looks are against me.”

—The Fellowship of the Rings, Chapter 10

excuse me while I go cry in a corner

#lotr #aragorn #english literature #like I love the movies but in a lot of ways they really did Aragorn dirty #like okay sure let’s do self doubting hero rises to the challenge and claims his destiny #for the ~~tension~~#But what about Sad Old Man Aragorn? Aragorn who is a already a chieftain of his people?#Aragorn who longs to go to Minas Tirith but places his duty to Frodo over his own desires?#Aragorn who is noble and good but also has trauma?#I’m not even joking he literally has a flashback when talking about the Riders #they didn’t need to sabotage Aragorn’s character the dramatic tension was ALREADY THERE #we were robbed

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