amysrevenge
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This got mentioned, I think while I was briefly distracted putting my daughter to bed, but it's interesting enough I think for further discussion.
When Frodo pops back to visibility at Strider's table, does the thought ever, for even a second, cross Aragorn's mind "Oh no, these people are idiots, am I going to be stuck taking on the burden of the Ring myself?"
I m not sure exactly how much of the story that unfolds later in Rivendell he already knows. He has to know the broad strokes of it: Isildur and Narsil, Ring lost in the River, somehow in Bilbo's hands, now with Frodo. He's met Gollum on Gandalf's behalf - does he know the Gollum story yet?
He knows what the Ring is, of course. How much of what it is capable of is he aware? Does he know how hard he needs to guard himself against desire for it? Does he know already that if he were to take it, even just to keep it safe, it would likely be his doom?
When Frodo pops back to visibility at Strider's table, does the thought ever, for even a second, cross Aragorn's mind "Oh no, these people are idiots, am I going to be stuck taking on the burden of the Ring myself?"
I m not sure exactly how much of the story that unfolds later in Rivendell he already knows. He has to know the broad strokes of it: Isildur and Narsil, Ring lost in the River, somehow in Bilbo's hands, now with Frodo. He's met Gollum on Gandalf's behalf - does he know the Gollum story yet?
He knows what the Ring is, of course. How much of what it is capable of is he aware? Does he know how hard he needs to guard himself against desire for it? Does he know already that if he were to take it, even just to keep it safe, it would likely be his doom?