Surely I'm not the only one who always pictured Lan as Aragorn?
Posted Dec 27, 2023, 8:45 PM UTC
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I, for one, am sure I’d crush the role.
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Robert Jordan definitely did, so you are not alone
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Book one Lan was pretty much a copy of Aragorn just like Eye of the World was a LotR copy
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to me it was always the Actor who plays Elrond but playing as Aragorn
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He's got the "carved from stone" look for sure. Put that bad boy in a Hadori and we've got a winner
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He definitely is based on Aragorn to a degree. Specified in RJ's notes.
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He's more of a Strider than an Aragon
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Wasn't a similar thing posted yesterday?
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Aragon was my Lan and Angelina jolie in Maleficent was my Moirane
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Surely not, indeed.
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That's pretty lazy
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I pictured Lan as Hugo Weaving from the same movie, but without elf ears.
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Plot twist: Aragorn didn’t look like this
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I always imagined Lan as a mix between Aragorn and Miyamoto Musashi.
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No, because it's an incredibly boring, lazy way to picure Lan, and speaks to a lack of imagination. Not to mention, Viggo as Aragorn doesn't even match the description of Lan in the books.
I love Aragorn, but just supplanting him into WOT does the story a disservice. Lan is obviously a riff on/inspired by Aragorn, but he is very much his own character.
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I like the idea, but somehow I get the impression of Lan as less "messy" than Aragorn. Less Anglo-Saxon esthetic and more Samurai, perhaps.
Also, consider the fighting styles. Aragorn (at least in the movies) is a brawler. He kicks nads, headbutts, twists necks, and all in all offers a startlingly brutal style of combat. Lan on the other hand is all about finesse. Sword forms & such.
But Light burn me, a sparring session between those two would rake in millions on tel'aran'rhiod Pay-per-View. Valan Luca could be the promoter, and we'd have Legolas, Gimli, and Mat on the commentary team.
Mat would be an amazing commentator, Light burn me but he would.
Blood and bloody ashes
Done like the ragnarok anime on netflix. Aragorn, legolas and gimli vs. Lan, mat and perrin. Thom and Gollum would be the commentators (mandatory taters jokes).
Gandalf vs. Lews Therin. Ogier Gardners vs. Stedding shangtai. Logain vs. Mazrim. Rand vs. Sauron.
You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.
I think aragon would have shaped up if he'd been strolling around with Arwyn Sedai
Or maybe she just likes those rough trade bad-boys, right? That's why her dad is always trying to make them break up. No jobless hick Numenorean from the wrong side of the Baranduin is good enough for his daughter...