Are We Ready For Peter Jackson's Aragorn?

Sean Bean might have to pull off an Oscar-winning performance for people to come out of the theater saying, "He NAILED that scene". But Viggo Mortensen will have to show time and again that he is the stolid, staid Aragorn who is nonetheless gnawed by self-doubt, fighting a hopeless war against an almost invincible enemy. Aragorn has faced Sauron's armies in battle before. He knows they can be defeated. But he also knows that Sauron has long been preparing for the final war. The Enemy has learned many lessons through the centuries. He's sown dissension and distrust among the former allies who once defeated him. He's weakened the Dunadan realms while recruiting and breeding new allies and servants for his own armies. He's snipped away, bit by bit, at the great kingdoms which once governed much of Middle-earth. Aragorn doesn't go forth simply alone when he sets out to find Frodo and company. He's going up against greater odds than any of his ancestors before him have ever done. Isildur had armies to defend him. Elendil had powerful allies to aid him. Aragorn has a broken sword. Cut off from Gandalf, having never met Frodo Baggins, he waits quietly by the roadside hoping that he'll see a couple of Hobbits travelling along from the Shire. But he's already heard from Gildor Inglorion that the Nazgul are on the road. His own people have been slain or driven off from their posts at Sarn Ford by the Nazgul. What goes through the mind of a Ranger who has nothing going for him? Never give up, never surrender. No retreat, no pickles on the hamburger. Aragorn is the kind of decisive leader who isolates situations and takes matters one step at a time. Once accepted by Frodo as a guide, Aragorn sets out for Weathertop. He looks no farther than that, though his goal is eventually to get the Hobbits to Rivendell. Arriving at Weathertop, he decides to take the Hobbits into Cardolan, cutting across the countryside and avoiding the Road for several days. He makes the journey in stages, and deals with each peril as it presents itself. Aragorn has been criticized for nearly getting lost in the hills north of the Road after crossing the Last Bridge over the Mitheithel river. Hey, he's only human. And it's not like Tinkerbell was hanging around, ready to go on scouting missions for him. One of his limitations is that

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