Quite agree with you about Aragorn’s character.
By the time of LOTR, he was 87 years old, he’d been in love with Arwen since he was 20, and engaged to her since he was 49. He’d been consciously working to gain the thrones of Arnor and Gondor for at minimum 38 years.
He might have gone thru the crises of confidence shown in the films, but certainly would have worked them thru long before the time shown by the movies.
In PJ’s partial defense, he may have been trying to show the arc of Aragorn’s life story compressed into the few months of the story.
A bigger personal pet peeve is the distortion of Faramir’s character. He was the sole Man (or indeed Elf or Hobbit) in the story shown as immune to the lure of the Ring, presumably because he was devoid of the lust for domination of others that the Ring keyed in on.
The Faramir of the book was a completely admirable character, the Faramir of the movie not so much. And I cannot see why this distortion was necessary to the story.
yes! I totally agree that the distortion of Faramir was the worst error.