[HairOfTheDog]

is it me or does Aragorn just get better looking....

HMMMM.... Interesting Hypothesis! - I shall study that!

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

I think that is a conscious effort to make him look successively less raffish and more kingly as the story progresses. He gradually morphs from Strider into Aragorn.

Here's hoping that he might even shave and shampoo for Return of the King......