A string of swear words falls from the ranger's lips as he stares at the large rainbow trout swimming away from his fishing rod having eaten the bait but not taken the hook ( Read more... )

Aragorn thinks of the many dangerous situations he’s lived through.. hunting the servants of the Enemy, battling them, facing their attacks to defend the innocent.. all dangerous things, but in a way.. safe.. He always had himself to count on, his full resources at his disposal, making it possible for him to face any threat without a second thought ( Read more... )

My foster father, Elrond ( Read more... )

... that made Aragorn feel he was truly, completely out of place in this world, unskilled to cope with it ( Read more... )

The question angers Aragorn. He cannot abide people who keep harping again and again on the same thing ( Read more... )

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Aragorn's dark eyebrows shot up in utter surprise when he read the question. Hearing the work karma used in this world was the last thing he would have expected...

Who would have thought that these people, who knew nothing of Middle Earth, its people and its history, would know about the Karma-kundo, the Guardian of the Helm, the Regent appointed ( Read more... )

It is not often that Aragorn thinks back to his days in Middle Earth, but there are times he does, times when he closes his eyes and he's brought back there, to remember the good and the bad of it ( Read more... )

A ranger doesn't lose control, what's the use of losing control when he's mostly on his own and has no one to vent his rage onto ( Read more... )

Aragorn's favorite way to relax had always been to fill his old pipe with sweet pipeweed, light it, watch the flame consume the dried leaves pressed down into the chimney, and pull the fragrant smoke down into his lungs, savouring the scented burn of it before exhaling it slowly and watch the tendrils of smoke lift into the air ( Read more... )