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[alatar]

And that's another point: Aragorn, as we will see in the next sequence, salutes the orcs (I will have a note regarding how he says this word, and how it is received on boths sides of the Atlantic) before he starts slaughtering them. He salutes the shards of Anduril, nods at Boromir after spearing the orc with a thrown sword, salutes the Nazgul (I think), nods to Galadriel, etc.

But no nod or salute for the Balrog-bane! Do these two even know each other?

Hope that you see my point.

And Essex (and others), why do you suppose that Aragorn is portrayed thus? I not going to concede 'material' yet. Was Boromir's part enhanced as his was the shortest for the trilogy? Is Sean Bean just 'better' at getting what he wants out of the script/script writers? Or did PJ want to make Boromir a more sympathetic Judas-goat whereas Viggo's one note is to be 'from rags to riches'?