This week, the Aragorn, son of Arathorn. How was Aragorn first envisioned in the text? Why is he so influential as a character? Would he be even cooler with big wooden shoes?

Show Notes

• The Peoples of Middle-earth (Christopher Tolkien)
• The Seventh Doctor
• Severance
• Fringe
• "No One Listens to Melian: When Women Speak and Men Ignore Them in Middle-earth" (Sara Brown)

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Music by Corvus from Pixabay.