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   From: jerry_friedman@yahoo.com   
      
   On 7/24/14 7:48 AM, Bill O'Meally wrote:   
   > On 2014-07-24 05:25:44 +0000, Morgoth's Curse said:   
   >   
   >> Who taught Aragorn the arts of war? I know that Elrond raised him as   
   >> his own son, but somehow I never thought that Elrond was especially   
   >> interested in the martial arts. (He must have been a competent   
   >> warrior, but he always struck me as the type who would rather think   
   >> his way out of a jam than fight.) Elrond certainly told him tales of   
   >> old battles, of course, but I can only speculate that it was   
   >> Glorfindel or Elladan and Elrohir who taught him how to fight, hunt   
   >> and track.   
   >   
   > In the 'Tale of Aragorn and Arwen', it says that Aragorn, at the age of   
   > twenty, "returned to Rivendell after great deeds in the company of the   
   > sons of Elrond...", suggesting that he spent a good amount of time with   
   > them, where he could hone his martial skills.   
   ...   
      
   Which he probably already had to some extent.  There's nothing in LotR   
   about what childhood among the northern Dúnedain was like, but given   
   their environment and their job protecting the Shire and Bree, they   
   probably gave most or all boys military training.   
      
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