And I think that Aragorn's fate was indeed bound up with the Ring, but in reverse. Aragorn's actions in helping to destroy the Ring also led to his reclaiming his throne. Had the Quest to destroy the Ring failed, and Sauron regained the Ring, I suspect Aragorn would have gone down fighting.

I have noticed that children come up with some very provocative ideas and questions about LoTR, from both the book and the movie. They seem to see things from a slightly different perspective.

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Although now long estranged, Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.
Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned,
and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned:
Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light
through whom is splintered from a single White
to many hues, and endlessly combined
in living shpes that move from mind to mind.
Though all the crannies of the world we filled
with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build
Gods and their houses out of dark and light,
and sowed the seed of dragons--'twas our right
(used or misused). That right has not decayed:
We make still by the law in which we're made!