Representing Men?

[The Saucepan Man]

That's one of the few threads that I started that ever went anywhere, so I feel duty-bound to give the full link (it being relevant to the question of whether Tolkien's characters are flat 'n all):

Psychological depth in Tolkien's characters

[Nimrodel_9]

I was reading in The Fellowship of the Ring today, and I came upon this:

For men you shall have Aragorn son of Arathorn, for the Ring of Isildur concerns him closely.

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"I would have begged for you to come," said Frodo, "only I thought you were going to Minas Tirith with Boromir." "I am," said Aragorn, "And the Sword-that-was-Broken will be re-forged ere I set out to war. But your road and my road lie together for many hundreds of miles. Therefore Boromir will also be in the Company. He is a valiant man.

So, if you decipher from that...

I liked my other theory better.