Did Aragorn really walk around the Wild with just a broken sword for protection?

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Don't faint everyone but I think that this is one of the things the film were right to change (and you don't catch me saying that very often). .

I will have to agree with this. The whole idea of Aragorn going out in the wilderness to protect Frodo and the ring completely unarmed would be bewildering for a movie audience. Yet, having Aragorn fight the Nazgul in an action-hero scene was a deviation from the original narrative I can not accept. This scene should have been made in horror-style. There should have been unseen and paralyzing terror, shilling to the very bone, not just a straight-forward attack by robed skeletons with swords.