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> Tolkien's Aragorn was the epitome of duty and commitment, always putting life and limb on the line for it; Jackson's didn't want the job! There's a reason fo
by vkou 3y ago
> Tolkien's Aragorn was the epitome of duty and commitment, always putting life and limb on the line for it; Jackson's didn't want the job!
There's a reason for it. A movie requires the protagonist to undergo a character arc, where their perspective on the world changes.
... Except that in this story, Aragorn already dealt with all those issues, and by the time of the Fellowship is just doing what he's spent his whole life working up to.
- hotnfresh 3y agoLike Beowulf, which Tolkien was famously pretty engaged with. Beowulf’s already a brave badass at the beginning, and that doesn’t change, nor does he waver or second-guess his course or duty.