Are We Ready For Peter Jackson's Aragorn?

war, but he chooses to give his help where it is most needed. The Aragorn of the film version will have to do the same, but will he seem as sincere? Will he move through the moment of personal growth and emerge a stronger character for it, or will he seem shallow and robotic? That's not so much in Viggo's hands as it is in the script's foreshadowing of the moment. How many times will we see Aragorn revealing his uncertainty in "The Fellowship of the Ring"? The choice to follow the Orcs or the Ring is a moment of crisis for Aragorn in several ways. He himself has rejected the Ring, long before, and is at peace with his choice. But he knows what happened between Boromir and Frodo. Are Legolas and Gimli also at risk? They seem too noble, too selfless to be tempted by the Ring, but already they have come further than they had agreed to in the first place. What doubts which might be gnawing at them would the Ring be able to use against their own selfless natures? It was a grave peril even to the greatest among the Elves who well knew its power. And Frodo's immediate safety seems assured, whereas the Orcs who carried off Merry and Pippin might learn all manner of secrets from them, such as who held the Ring, and where he was going, and who travelled with the Ringbearer. How much less alarming would Aragorn's eventual revelation of himself to Sauron be if the Enemy learns of him from Orcs returning from a successful raid, rather than after Aragorn peers through a Palantir formerly held by Saruman? There will probably be no projections of Aragorn's thoughts in "The Two Towers" movie as he struggles to decide which path he must take. Viggo will have had plenty of time to show the audience that he is a warrior in "The Fellowship of the Ring", but will the script have given him the opportunity to show that Aragorn is still coming to grips with who he is and who he must be? Sean Bean will be lucky if the costuming department doesn't put him in a red shirt. Poor Boromir has so little to do until he tries to take the Ring, and then he goes on to face dozens of Orcs all by himself. Wouldn't it be great to see his last battle fully

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