[Penny1]

Even more, what I miss is his history with Gandalf. In the book, he and Gandalf have travelled many miles together. In fact, they went through Moria together, and it was Strider who was reluctant to repeat the experience, not so much Gandalf.

I really missed that too, and wish they had kept the part about it being Aragorn who was reluctant to go through Moria and especially WHY--because Aragorn was worried about Gandalf's safety. There are a couple of moments in the movie, though, where you get a sense that Gandalf and Aragorn know each other well-when Gandalf insists Aragorn "lead them on" and when Gandalf falls. Perhaps we will get more of their "history" in the next installment? I hope.

[allthatisgolddoesnotglitter]

I'm hoping they'll be more history in general in the next one as well, since TTT isn't as big of a book. The characters aren't really that well developed, they just move and move and move from here to there. You find out a good bit about personalities from dialogue but no real history. I did think the history of Middle Earth in the beginning was nice.....