Yes yes yes! A couple months ago I was rewatching large portions of the Extended Editions, and I was really, really impressed by how well they conveyed that Aragorn is this utterly unique cultural oddity. Because he totally is! Not only is he a Ranger--which is a small outsider group to begin with--but then he was raised by elves, and he also has the throwback Numenorean lifespan which means he'd probably seen childhood friends grow old and die by the time LotR happens. Like, no wonder he fell in love with a half-elven girl. She was probably one of the few people in Middle-earth who understood him.
(I SEEM TO BE DESCENDING RAPIDLY BACK INTO LOTR OBSESSION. IT DOES NOT TAKE MUCH.)
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(I SEEM TO BE DESCENDING RAPIDLY BACK INTO LOTR OBSESSION. IT DOES NOT TAKE MUCH.)