I'm playing word games now; we see Elendil's "like" and "likeness" in Aragorn.
Aragorn is not just Isildur's heir, he's Elendil's heir, and very like him in
appearance as well as nature. There has not been a Man like him since Elendil.
He's a combination of bloodlines and upbringing; and yet he would not have been
born if his parents' parents hadn't had enough faith to let Gilraen marry
improperly young. He brings hope to more than the Dunedain.
Fate is a loaded word, so I'll use an even more loaded one :-) I think it was
the will of Eru that Aragorn be born when he was. But it's by Aragorn's own
free will that he chooses to take the paths he does, including this terrifying
path. He knows he has the right to ask for the fulfilment of this oath; the
knowledge of that right, added to his own strength of spirit, that enables him
to wrest the Palantir and to lead the
Dead.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
