Aragorn's first visit to Moria

[Alcuin]

Originally Posted by Troelsfo

Aragorn's reference to having visited Moria earlier is one of the remnants of the story of Trotter — the Hobbit ranger...

Trotter had been kept captive by ‘Black Riders’ in Moria, which is also the history behind Aragorn's painful memory in Bree as they talk about the Black Riders...

...All of this jumbled history has still left traces of back-history in the published book such as Aragorn's memory of pain in Bree and his reference to entering Moria previously.

Your assessment of the text and Aragorn’s aversion to entering Moria is right on the mark, IMO.

Originally Posted by Troelsfo

...I don't think we can simply allow Aragorn to adopt all of Trotter's story, since I am sure that Aragorn was not caught and tortured in Moria, and most certainly not by Nazgûl.

Hence this thread.