My faith in Santa Claus is stronger than my faith in men.

The idea of Aragorn is a nice one, but I don't think that it's in the cards for yours truly. Anyway, I don't want to waste my time thinking about it. Why oh why did Tolkien have to create such perfect characters just to frustrate me? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I beg to differ about Aragorn's not wanting to hand over his sword to the Doorward of Theoden. The reason for his balking was because of Anduril and Aragorn's heritage, and that Aragorn was certainly of Theoden's equal two generations before, when he served in Rohan.

The problem was, that any man who pulled the blade from it's shieth, even in curiousity, if he were not Aragorn, he would die. This was the power of the shieth that Galadriel gave Aragorn. I do not think Aragorn wished to suffer that any man might die due to not believing it.
Indeed, after Aragorn explains the sword, the guard:
"Stepped back and looked with amazement on Aragorn.
'It seems you are come on wings of song out of the forgotten days,' he said. 'it shall be, lord, as you command.'"
See? He ceased to question Aragorn, believed his command, and called him lord.
I too, would have been angry, as Aragorn was, if I had been a lord of Rohan, and forgotten in only 2 generations. I'd be mighty furious! Woooo!

Where does it say about the person being killed if they remove the sword from its sheath if not Aragorn?