Hope= Thoughts on Aragorn
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles
Faramir: You came to me the night that I feared I would break, the night I feared I would fall to the ring. You sat beside me and comforted me, as a friend and brother. It was that night that I first really tasted it, that I first fully understood the meaning of Hope. It didn't have to come with ten thousand men on horses prepared for battle; indeed, we never had that good of odds! It came with the simple knowledge that you were the one, you were the king. In that moment I knew that we could win. We could win simply because of hope. Because he couldn't kill hope, but you could create it.
Arwen: I had lived a lifetime before we met. It was a lifetime without change, without excitement, without hope. I had no hope that anything would ever change. I knew what my life would entail, and the dreariness of it frightened it. I lived, though I had no real reason or purpose. Then I met you, you caught me dancing and was instantly smitten with me. I was not surprised, few mortals hadn't been. I thought little of it till we met again, so many years later. At that second meeting something changed. I found hope, hope that maybe my life didn't have to be so mundane, that maybe, just maybe, there was a reason to live.
Frodo: You looked a fright the first time we met. I must admit, you scared me awfully. I feared that we had fallen right into the enemies trap! I think Sam wanted to run away, try another inn. He surely didn't understand why I listened to you, for that matter neither did I. I only knew it felt right, I couldn't explain it but I just believed you. I wanted you to be right, to be real. I had already decided that I would follow you. Gandalf's letter only gave me leave to put my hope in you. And I did, and you did not let me down. It was you that gave me the hope that I could succeed on that mission. It was you that gave me the hope to continue.
Eowyn: You came when I needed it most. I was starving for it; I was dying of a thirst for it. Faramir often says that I looked like a lily covered in the early morning frost at that time. I was, and I need the sun. Your presence was such to me. Your coming marked the end of Grima's reign of fear, the end of his power over me. Had you not come when you had, he would have destroyed me. Yet you came, and with your coming I felt the sweet embrace of hope for the first time. For the first time I believed that good could triumph-that it would triumph.
Gandalf: I've walked this world for many lives. I've seen kings come and go, some great, some terrible. Yet you were different. You were special. I smile now, so many years later, as I recall that first time I saw you. You were scarcely a lad of five summers. You were so filled with life, and the incredible drive that you held for your entire life. Three elves were teasing a cat. They had tied it up and were poking it with a stick, terrorizing the poor creature. You boldly strode up to the older elves and released the terrified animal. I knew then that you would be the one. That you would be the one to restore Gondor.
I couldn't help but chuckle as I heard your name, Estel. Fitting that the future of man should be named hope, and indeed, there future did look to be hopeful.
A/N: When Aragorn was a child he was called Estel, which is the elvish word for hope. Because he was the only real hope for mankinds future. I personally think that Aragorn is the type of person that you just can't help but trust. The type that you would follow of a cliff, just becasue you believe in him.