[ecurbh]

Well, I did some figuring. Aragorn lives to be 210, and is 87 at the time of the War of the Ring, so he is about 41.5% through his lifespan. If the life expectancy of a non-Numenorian is 91 years (using Eomer's lifespan as the baseline), that makes Aragorn the equivalent of a 38 year-old. And Viggo is 45, so I think he is a pretty good fit age-wise.

[Restorer]

If the life expectancy of a non-Numenorian is 91 years (using Eomer's lifespan as the baseline), that makes Aragorn the equivalent of a 38 year-old.

Except that the Numenoreans reach adulthood in the same amount of time as other men. They then stay vigorous until just a short time before their death from old age (assuming they don't "lay down their life") as Aragorn chooses to do.

Thus Aragorn's life consists of 20 years of childhood and adolescence, then 190 years of vigorous adulthood, and (had he not chosen to bail out early) perhaps 5 or 10 more years of old age.

Why can't we arrange for such a life pattern? :)

[BradyLS]

Aragorn the equivalent of a 38 year-old. And Viggo is 45, so I think he is a pretty good fit age-wise.

But Viggo is a 20th Century 45-year-old. I'm thinking his looks wouldn't be so clean nor his skin so fair if he were the kind of man to spend his life seeing the world on foot the way Strider did. But, like I said, the movies never suggest he did any such thing, so yours and Hair's assessments are certainly reasonable.