Aragorn: The 87 Lost Years Tolkien Hid From You | LOTR Deep Dive
Who was Aragorn before Strider? What did he do for the eighty-seven years between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring? In this deep dive, we reconstruct the lost life of Aragorn son of Arathorn from Tolkien's Appendices, Unfinished Tales, and Letters - the decades the films skip and the novels barely name.Raised in Rivendell as Estel, he learns his true lineage at twenty, accepts an impossible bridal price for Arwen, and vanishes into the wild. We follow him as Thorongil serving Thengel of Rohan and Ecthelion of Gondor, burning the Corsairs at Umbar, riding east into Rhun and south into…
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