Young Aragorn with the shards of Narsil , by Anna Lee. Elrond revealed to "Estel" his true name and ancestry when he was twenty, and gave to him the Ring of Barahir and the Shards of Narsil. Aragorn met Gandalf the Grey in and they became close friends.
Heeding Gandalf's advice, Aragorn and the Rangers began to guard a small land known as the Shire inhabited by the diminutive and agrarian Hobbits , and he became known among the peoples just outside the Shire's borders as Strider. Many of his tasks helped to raise morale in the West and counter the growing threat of Sauron and his allies, and he earned priceless experience which he would later put to use in the War of the Ring. Aragorn served his lords in disguise and his name in Gondor and Rohan during that time was Thorongil "Eagle of the Star".
With a small Gondor squadron of ships, he led an assault on the long-standing rebel province of Umbar in , burning many of the Corsairs' ships and personally slaying their lord during the battle on the Havens.
After the victory at Umbar, "Thorongil" left the field and, to the dismay of his men, went east. Aragorn the Ranger in the wild, from the fan film The Hunt for Gollum. Aragorn, Ranger from the North called Strider, Dunadan of great worth.
Heir of Isildur, taking on that guilt. Rightful King of Gondor, by Numenoreans built. After the War he finally took his place As King of the dwindling Numenorean race. He gave her the heirloom of his House, the Ring of Barahir , and, on the hill of Cerin Amroth, Arwen pledged her hand to him in marriage, renouncing her elvish lineage and accepting the Gift of Men : death.
Elrond withheld from Aragorn permission to marry his daughter until such a time as his foster son should be king of both Gondor and Arnor. As both Elrond and Aragorn knew, to marry a mortal, Arwen would be required to choose mortality, and thus deprive the deathless Elrond of his daughter while the world lasted.
Elrond was also concerned for Arwen's own happiness, fearing that in the end she might find death her own and that of her beloved too difficult to bear. Before the events of The Lord of the Rings properly take place, Aragorn also traveled through the Dwarven mines of Moria , to Harad , where in his own words "the stars are strange. In , Gandalf grew suspicious of the origin of the ring belonging to the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins , which later turned out to be the One Ring , the source of the Dark Lord Sauron 's evil power.
Aragorn went at his request into Rhovanion in search of Gollum , who had once possessed the Ring. He caught the creature in the Dead Marshes near Mordor , and brought him as a captive to Thranduil 's halls in Mirkwood , where Gandalf questioned him. There, Aragorn chose to join Frodo, thus forming the Fellowship of the Ring that was formed to guard Frodo, tasked with destroying the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom in Mordor. All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be Blade that was Broken, The crownless again shall be king. Aragorn accompanied the group through an attempt to cross the pass of Caradhras and through the mines of Moria.
He helped protect Frodo from an Orc captain and became group leader after Gandalf was presumed lost in battle with a Balrog. Though his original plan was to set out for Gondor and aid its people in the War, he felt responsible for Frodo after the loss of Gandalf.
After passing into the Argonath , the Fellowship camped in Amon Hen. Frodo saw that Boromir had been driven mad by the influence of the One Ring trying to take it. The Council of Gondor refused him, saying:. In Gondor this heritage is reckoned through the sons only; and we have not heard that the law is otherwise in Arnor. Instead, the throne of Gondor was given to a distant cousin of the king, who happened to be a popular and successful captain of Gondor's armies. Shortly afterward, King Arvedui himself was killed, and the last remnants of Arnor destroyed.
A generation later, Gondor lost its king, who rashly answered the Witch-king's challenge to come to Minas Morgul for a one-on-one duel. Before he left, he entrusted the rule of Gondor to his steward until he returned. No heir with a strong enough claim could be found, so the Stewards became the rulers of Gondor. Arvedui and his kingdom had been wiped out, but his son Aranarth had survived.
Elrond continued to shelter and tutor the descendants of his brother Elros, the last of whom was Aragorn. It was hard enough for Aragorn the Ranger to prove he was the bonafide heir of Arvedui, whose kingdom had been destroyed a thousand years earlier. Elrond could confirm his identity, having remained an ally to the Heirs of Isildur during their centuries of obscurity, but even his word might not be enough. Even though Gondor's line had died out, Denethor could point to the Council's ruling—valid or not—to deny Aragorn the kingship.
Tolkien's Denethor was not a crazy old coot: He was a formidable military commander who'd been holding the forces of Mordor at bay all his life. He did not sacrifice his sons needlessly, though he sent Faramir out to hold Osgiliath's defenses as long as possible before it fell, in order to buy time for the Riders of Rohan to arrive. In the books, Denethor ordered the Beacons to be lit. However, Denethor was none too happy about Aragorn. He knew who he was, despite Gandalf's attempts to conceal his identity:.
Thy hope is to rule in my stead, to stand behind every throne, north, south, or west. I have read thy mind and its policies. Do I not know that you commanded this hafling here to keep silence? That you brought him hither to be a spy within my very chamber? And yet in our speech together I have learned the names and purpose of all thy companions. With the left hand thou wouldst use me for a little while as a shield against Mordor, and with the right bring up this Ranger of the North to supplant me.
But I say to thee, Gandalf Mithrandir, I will not be thy tool! I will not step down to be the dotard chamberlain of an upstart. Even were his claim proved to me, still he comes but of the line of Isildur.
I will not bow to such a one, last of a ragged house long bereft of lordship and dignity! Until Faramir was brought back to the city dying, Denethor was under strain but not insane. He was simply a cynic.
Worse, there was bad blood between Aragorn and Denethor. Aragorn, gifted with long life like his ancestors, was Denethor's age. As a young man, he had served in disguise in Gondor, rising up through the ranks and becoming the right-hand man of Ecthelion the Steward. Ecthelion favored Aragorn over his own son! Back then, Denethor had shrewdly guessed the true identity of his hated rival. From Denethor's point of view, if the threat of Mordor wasn't bad enough, Aragorn was waiting in the wings to sail in, "save" Minas Tirith, and claim the crown, after Denethor had spent his life and sons to protect his city!
So Denethor had more than one reason to be angry when Faramir showed himself "lordly and generous" by letting Frodo take the Ring to Mordor.
It was galling enough that Faramir had followed Gandalf's daft plan and sent the Ring straight to the Enemy. Even worse, if by some miracle Gandalf's scheme worked, Faramir would want to be "lordly and generous" and hand the throne on a silver platter to Gandalf's puppet! Faramir acted just as his father had predicted, tossing the Council of Gondor's ruling aside. His first act as Steward was to invite Aragorn to claim the crown. In Faramir's mind, the King had returned.
Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta! And those were the words that Elendil spoke when he came up out of the Sea on the wings of the wind:. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world. Arwen's theme was snippets of Sindarin Elvish the tongue still spoken put together by a modern linguist based on Tolkien's writings. Excellent summaries. These are good for people who are very familiar with the movies but who either haven't read the books, or haven't read them lately and forgot some of this info.
This form of succession is known in our world as Salic Law. What does seem odd however is that Gondor would rather not have a king than break with this principle - after the death of Earnur there were no exclusively male-line descendants of Anarion at all.
And they are completely unwilling to move from this for millennia - Denethor himself once said that "not ten thousand years" would be enough for the people of Gondor to accept a Steward as King.
Yet after all this time and stubbornness, they're willing to accept Aragorn as King simply because Faramir says so? Wrong, Aragorn could have proven his bloodline by simply wielding anduril, as tolkien quite clearly states in the books that only an heir to the throne, or the king himself or man of royal blood, in this case aragorn could wield narsil, and im guessing that the same principal applies to anduril.
Tolkien states that any man who was unworthy to wield the blade would die from it, in other words, if anyone other than an heir of elendil or elendil himself, were to wield it, they would die. Aragorn was also a descendant of Anarion. Aragorn's healing abilities, moreover, were a sign to the people of Gondor of the identity of their true king; as Ioreth said, "The hands of the King are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.
Despite his immediate success and popularity, however, and despite his claim to the throne through raising the royal banner, Aragorn decided to lay aside his claim for the time being. He knew that if he aggressively promoted his claim, rival claimants or debates as to his legitimacy were not out of the question, and this could be a fatal distraction for Gondor at a time when the West needed to be united against Sauron.
So, to avoid conflict, after he had healed people during the following nights of March 15 — 16 , he left Minas Tirith and symbolically refused to enter it again until he was crowned King on May 1. They marched over the Anduin river and came to Minas Morgul , and set fire to the fields there. Leaving a guard at the Cross-roads , they began to march north through Ithilien , and Aragorn won a skirmish against some Orcs and Easterlings that tried to ambush them.
They then reached the desert before Mordor, and Aragorn allowed those who were afraid to depart to retake Cair Andros. Men of Gondor, hear now the Steward of this Realm! One has come to claim the kingship again at last. Shall he be king and enter into the City and dwell there? Upon Sauron's defeat, Aragorn was crowned as King Elessar , a name given to him by Galadriel and adopted by the people of Gondor because of the Elfstone he wore. He became the twenty-sixth King of Arnor , thirty-fifth King of Gondor , and the first High King of the Reunited Kingdom , though it would be several years before his authority was firmly re-established in Arnor.
His reign was marked by great harmony and prosperity within Gondor and Arnor, and by a great renewal of cooperation and communication among Men, Elves, and Dwarves, fostered by his vigorous rebuilding campaign following the war. Aragorn led the forces of the Reunited Kingdom on military campaigns against some Easterlings and Haradrim , re-establishing rule over all the territory that Gondor had lost in previous centuries.
Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta! In this place, I will abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world.
Then a great beauty was revealed in him, so that all who after came there looked on him in wonder; for they saw that the grace of his youth, and the valour of his manhood, and the wisdom and majesty of his age were blended together. And long there he lay, an image of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. He said farewell to his son Eldarion and his daughters and gave Eldarion his crown and sceptre.
Arwen remained at Aragorn's side until he died. Eldarion began his reign as the Second King of the Reunited Kingdom after his father's death. Was there ever anyone like him? Except Gandalf, of course. I think they must be related. An artist's conception of Aragorn at The Prancing Pony. Tolkien gives a brief but detailed description of him in The Lord of the Rings : lean, dark, tall, with "a shaggy head of dark hair flecked with grey, and in a pale stern face a pair of keen grey eyes.
In The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen , he was said to be often grim and sad, with unexpected moments of levity. He was also a skilled healer, notably with the plant Athelas also known as Kingsfoil. Though there is no indication of his ever doubting his role and destiny as the future king of the Reunited Kingdom and one of the leaders of the war against Sauron as he did in Peter Jackson's film , he was not immune to self-doubt, as he doubted the wisdom of his decisions while leading the Fellowship after the loss of Gandalf in Moria, and blamed himself for many of their subsequent misfortunes.
Even so, he swore that death would come to anyone else who touched it whether by his own hand or by some magic, it is left unsaid. He also appeared to possess a nigh-indomitable will. At one point, he was able to psychically challenge Sauron for control of the Palantir of Orthanc, and proved victorious in that struggle. It should be noted that even Gandalf the White was reluctant to use the Palantir for fear of challenging Sauron directly and revealing himself to the Dark Lord.
His fortitude in the face of the Army of the Dead was unwavering and his companions remarked that he was mighty indeed in the strength of his will. He was accounted as "the hardiest of living Men" during his lifetime. The name Aragorn means "Revered King", from the Sindarin ara "king" and n gorn "revered" [21]. Aragorn was named after Aragorn I. The restoration of the line of Elendil to the throne of Gondor is a subplot of The Lord of the Rings ; Aragorn's adventures not only aid Frodo in his Quest, but also bring him closer to his own kingship which, though his by right and lineage, has been left open for centuries due to historical, legal, and military circumstances.
The people of Gondor have been under the rule of the Stewards of Gondor for centuries, as it was widely doubted that any of the royal line still lived. The "first term" of the character that later evolved into Aragorn or Strider was a peculiar hobbit met by Bingo Bolger-Baggins precursor of Frodo Baggins at the inn of The Prancing Pony. His description and behavior, however, was already quite close to the final story, with the difference that the hobbit wore wooden shoes, and was nicknamed Trotter for the "clitter-clap" sound that they produced.
He was also accounted to be "one of the wild folk — rangers", and he played the same role in Frodo's journey to Rivendell as in The Lord of the Rings. Later Tolkien hesitated about the true identity of "Trotter" for a long time. One of his notes suggested that the Rangers should not be hobbits as originally planned, and that this would mean that Trotter was either a Man or a hobbit who associated himself with the Rangers and was "very well known" within the story.
The latter suggestion was linked to an early comment of Bingo: "I keep on feeling that I have seen him somewhere before". Tolkien made a proposal that Trotter might be Bilbo Baggins himself, but rejected that idea. Another suggestion was that Trotter was "Fosco Took Bilbo's first cousin , who vanished when a lad, owing to Gandalf". This story was further elaborated, making Trotter a nephew of Bilbo, named Peregrin Boffin, and an elder cousin of Frodo.
He was said to have run away after he came of age, some twenty years before Bilbo's party, and had helped Gandalf in tracking Gollum later. A hint was also given as to why Trotter wore wooden shoes: he had been captured by the Dark Lord in Mordor and tortured, but saved by Gandalf; a note was added by Tolkien in the margin, saying that it would later be revealed that Trotter had wooden feet.
Quite soon Tolkien finally settled on the Mannish identity of Trotter, from the beginning introducing him as a "descendant of the ancient men of the North, and one of Elrond's household", as well as the name Aragorn. Thus the evolution of the history of the Second and Third Ages was dependent on the bringing of Trotter to association with them.
The development of Aragorn's connection to Gondor was long and complex, as was his association with Boromir. The story of the two branches of Elendil's descendants ruling over two kingdoms of Men through many generations only emerged gradually; at one time, Tolkien even seems to have conceived only three generations between Isildur and Aragorn.
One significant feature which was not established until late stages was Aragorn's relationship with Arwen. The first mention of Elrond's daughter, named Arwen Undomiel, was in reference to the banner which she made for Aragorn, but Tolkien did not give any hint whether she had any further part to play. The references to her marriage with Aragorn were made later, but it was explicitly stated only near the completion of the book. It is only in his working on the appendices for The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien recorded the full tale of Aragorn and Arwen.
A passing idea was that Galadriel gave her Ring to Aragorn, and that he would accordingly be titled the "Lord of the Ring". The original nickname Trotter was retained for a long while, and Tolkien decided to change it to Strider only after the story was completed.
There were also several experimental translations of Trotter to Sindarin: Padathir, Du-finnion and Rimbedir, with Ecthelion possibly being equivalent to Peregrin Boffin.
Tolkien hesitated for some time about Trotter's "real" name. Although Aragorn was the first suggestion when the Mannish descent was settled, it was changed a number of times. At one point Tolkien decided that an Elvish name does not suit a Man, and thus altered it from Aragorn via Elfstone to Ingold, where the last one is an Old English name with ing- representing "west". Later, however, a new plot element was introduced: Galadriel's gift of a green stone, and Tolkien reverted the usage to Elfstone in order to make an additional connection.
This was retained into the final version of the legendarium as a side name and a translation of Elessar. The name of Aragorn's father also passed through many transient forms: Tolkien intended Aramir or Celegorn to go in pair with Aragorn before settling upon Arathorn; Elfhelm and Eldakar with Elfstone and Eldamir; and Ingrim with Ingold.
Richard J. The are additional similarities between Aragorn and Arthur beyond those pointed out by Finn. For "Men of the North", Goddodin was a far northern kingdom.
Arthur was crowned by St. Dubriticus, who wore a long gray robe for which he was called "His Grey Eminence" - Gandalf the White also wore a gray robe at Aragorn's coronation to indicate he at one time was Gandalf the Grey. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me!
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship.
But it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down!
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