[slhill]

I can't remember my LOTR well enough to be sure, but doesn't Aragorn have one of the Rings? The rings are magical.

[ThomasMore]

doesn't Aragorn have one of the Rings?

Not to my knowledge.

The rings are magical.

Not in today's sense or maybe the Harry Potter sense.

[ArGee]

I can't remember my LOTR well enough to be sure, but doesn't Aragorn have one of the Rings? The rings are magical.

Aragorn does not have one of the Rings. The Rings are not magical, they are powerful. There is a huge difference. At one point Aragorn does use a Palantir. We might call that magic but Tolkein never does. The Palantir is powerful, but it is not presented as magical.

The men do not posess magic. But the age of the magicians is drawing to a close and the age of men is beginning precisely because the men do not posess magic. They posess something much more.

That is a huge part of what the Trilogy is about.

Shalom.

[the bottle let me down]

I can't remember my LOTR well enough to be sure, but doesn't Aragorn have one of the Rings? The rings are magical.

I'm pretty sure that the Elves rings belonged to Elrond, Galadriel, and the Elf Lord at Grey Haven (I'm drawing a blank on the name). If Aragorn acquired a ring, it was only when the elves were leaving Middle Earth.