[Kartographer]

"I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"

[ottbmare]

Yes. And note the way Aragorn’s speech concludes: “...men of the West!” For it is the West, the harbor of civilization, the haven of truth, beauty, and goodness, that must stand always against the darkness rising in the East. Tolkien knew that.