Throughout the movie we see that Aragorn is unsure about returning to the throne. I actually thought anytime Minas Tirith was brought up Aragorn was just going to shout "NO!" But, do we see a sense of reluctancy in the books? I mean Aragorn had a chance to claim the throne when he served under Ecthelion (obviously there was something about him if Denethor started viewing the Palantir after his father's death fearing this "Thorongil." He doesn't claim it after Imrahil encoorage him to. And he only claims it after the war. Is this reluctancy, or just smart political tactics? We also see that Aragorn (at Amon Hen) actually didn't intend on going to Minas Tirith, unless Frodo decided to. Did he do this out of reluctancy, having second thoughts? Or to stick with Frodo until the end?
To tie this in with the movies, is Aragorn's unwillingness to go to Gondor totally bad? After all, it does add some suspense, will Aragorn go? Will he get there in time? Not to mention I think it puts more meaning to the oath Aragorn makes to Boromir...
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"Leave it! It is over the world of men will fall. All will come to darkness. My City to ruin."
"I do no know what strength is in my blood, but I swear to you, I will not let the White City fall, nor our people fail."
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There we have one of them important oaths/oath-fulfilling/oath-breaking we commonly see in Tolkien, and I think a wonderful job with the script/directing. Aragorn's made an oath, will he go back on it? Will he not? Or does it just create more problems within the movie, because at some points Aragorn is dead set on Minas Tirith, then other times he just flat out doesn't want to go?