![]() Aragorn is powerful, just, valiant, and everything you would want in a great king. There is a reason that Gandalf was almost frightened by the prospect of being the one in control of the ring. The ring corrupts the mighty easiest of all. Instead, the books make that clear that such a plan has a zero percent chance of success. If the books were more traditional, the ring would have been given to Aragorn, who would carve his way through every Orc in his path before valiantly throwing the ring into the fires of Mount Doom, with his best buddy Boromir backing him up. The best way to do that? Give it to somebody who is humble, kind, and does not want power. The entire purpose of destroying the ring is so that the free peoples of Middle-earth do not have to live the rest of their lives under the heel of Sauron. One of the most important aspects of Tolkien’s main The Lord of the Rings trilogy is that power does not save the day. Nor would he approve of the sociopathic “barely less evil than Sauron” Celebrimbor, who is drastically different from the one Tolkien created. She is supposed to be a giant spider, the daughter of Ungoliant, not a succubus. However, there is no way that he would like the sexy Shelob. ![]() He might be neutral on the characters in the games, given that most of them are not his nor are they a part of his stories. either Sure, the books do not shy away from violence, but Tolkien would probably have a negative view of how slaughtering everyone, and everything is the main objective of the games. On the other hand, the combat aspects of Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War probably would not appeal to him all that much. It is unlikely that he would say “Yes, that’s exactly how I envisioned it, too,” but that’s just the nature of adaptations. ![]() He would be impressed to see Mordor brought to life with graphics that frankly still hold up in 2022. It is no secret to anyone who has read two sentences of anything that Tolkien wrote that he really, really really enjoyed writing about the settings of his stories. ![]()
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