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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 1294502" data-attributes="member: 9410">Don't forget the Wargs (NOT Worgs!) from The Hobbit, as well as the Werewolves that attacked the Fellowship outside the gate into Khazad-Dum!  The Watcher in the Water (Kraken?) is another baddy...  Most undead will fit right in.  Trolls, goblinoids, etc.In The Silmarillion, Sauron himself could turn into a giant (Were?)Wolf!Also, I would call the Mearas Legendary Horses (see WotC's Masters of the Wild), and Huan or Hoan (I fergit) from The Silmarillion, as a Legendary, Awakened Hound.  Perhaps the Kine of Araw (from whose horn Boromir's magical horn was made) were also Legendary Kine...As for Aragorn, he oft restates his lineage, from Isildur & Elendil, of Numenor.  Numenoreans had longer lifespans than "ordinary" men, as well as certain mental powers.  (Note, for instance, that only he & Legolas can withstand Galadriel's gaze - mental questioning - the rest all quickly look away!  Tolkien also tells us that the men of Bree believed that ALL Rangers could Speak With Animals, and Aragorn is able to convine Hasufel, his mount, to enter the Door of the Paths of the Dead.)As for Aasimar, I would say no, but you may disagree...  Aragorn's line goes back to Melian the Maia, who is a minor Vala, like Gandalf.  She wed King Thingol Sindacollo (Greycloak) and ruled the hidden kingdom of Doriath with him, and it was foretold that her line would never end...  Her daughter was Luthien Tinuviel, who wed Beren (mentioned by Samwise on the stairs to Cirith Ungol as one of "the great tales").  From her came Dior and Elwing, who wed Earendil (Aragorn chides Bilbo for composing songs about him in Elrond's house, in book I)...  These were the two weddingd of Elves & men, IIRC... and hence the problem!Y'see, the Valar never intended for there to be Half-Elves!  There are *NO* Half-Elves in Middle Earth!  The Peredhil (Half-Elven) were required to CHOOSE, either to me Elf, or Man...  Elrond chose to be Elf (Hence, in the Lay of Aragorn and Arwen in the appedices, Arwen's comment to Aragorn, upon their first meeting, after he has declared his lineage to her, of "Then we are kinsmen from afar!"), while his brother, Elros (Tar-Minyatur) chose to be Human, and thus became the first king of Numenor...  From which, eventually, descended Elendil, Isildur, & Anarion... and later Arathorn and Aragorn!So, is Aragorn an Aasimar?  I would say no.  More like he has a touch of angelic blood, like an Erinyes...  YMMV, though!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The Numenoreans had longer lives than other men due to their heritage, and living on the isle, closer to Aman.  As mentioned many times in LotR, the blood of Numenor was much-diluted, in ME, and only in Aragorn, Faramir, and Denethor are we told that it ran pretty pure...  The inter-marrying with the "lesser men" was also the cause of the Kin-Strife, by the way.  See the Tale of Years, in the Appendices.</blockquote>

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