Aragorn in the movies

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Essex

Do you think this could have been one of the main reasons why Aragorn's character was 'changed' by the scriptwriters? To give us a more fluid reason why Aragorn let Frodo go.

That would make sense to me. Another theme that they chose to emphasise was the power and corrupting influence of the Ring (and this, too, ties in with the "weakness of Men" theme). This was the primary reason for the Faramir changes in TTT.