Aragorn Upgrade?

[SheevShezarrine]

During the skirmish on Weathertop Aragorn blocks what appears to be a non-casual attack by a Nazgul. Would this be enough to upgrade him? Superhuman humans aren't unheard of in Tolkien's verse, and due to his bloodline having a fairly close connection to the men of the First Age, it might not be exceedingly outlandish.

 

[GalaxianAegis]

I thought about this as well to add on here, wouldn't Anduril grant him higher AP as well since it was the same blade capable of wounding Sauron and cutting the ring off of him?

 

[SheevShezarrine]

I thought about this as well to add on here, wouldn't Anduril grant him higher AP as well since it was the same blade capable of wounding Sauron and cutting the ring off of him?

I kinda thought so too

 

[MasterOfArda]

The movies cannot be used as evidence.

 

[GalaxianAegis]

I agree with @MasterOfArda . The movies change several things from the source material, so it would be better if we had something from the books themselves or some other notes by Tolkien himself.

 

[Therefir]

Yes, we don't use the movies or Frodo should have wall level durability with his mithril coat mail.

 

[SheevShezarrine]

The movies cannot be used as evidence.

Don't adaptations count as secondary canon? Filler and anything that changes in the switch between mediums is to be ignored, of course, but the adaptation isn't to be ignored entirely, right? Afrter all, Aragorn is Street level due to a calc using scenes from the movie version.

 

[MasterOfArda]

Don't adaptations count as secondary canon? Filler and anything that changes in the switch between mediums is to be ignored, of course, but the adaptation isn't to be ignored entirely, right? Afrter all, Aragorn is Street level due to a calc using scenes from the movie version.

No. Of course not. The movies are no more canon than fanfiction.

 

[SheevShezarrine]

Bump

 

[GalaxianAegis]

I just looked at his profile and the calc does use the movie version, we might want to take that off if we're truly not using the movies to scale at all.

 

[MasterOfArda]

Fixed it.

 

[SheevShezarrine]

Bump