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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6665376" data-attributes="member: 6787503">If I was to equate her, or any of these others, with the Ranger "archetype", I would say her favorite enemy was men, especially those who had the misfortune to happen upon her while bathing.  To me more of a Fighter/Rogue with the Archery fighting style and Sharpshooter (which really speaks to the Ranger's ambiguous identity), but if he were a Ranger, I would say his favoured enemy was the Sherriff of Notingham and his men.Wasn't he a bit of an "Indian-fighter"? I haven't read Last of the Mohicans, but since one of his aliases is Pathfinder, I'd have to agree that Bumppo is a formative influence on the archetype. He was very likely based on Daniel Boone, a real life "Indian-fighter", so if we accept him as one of the starting places for the Ranger archetype, we can see that racism was part of it from the beginning.He battled large wild animals and "native" peoples.He fought gorillas, didn't he?If I were to give Aragorn a Favored Enemy it would be "Servants of the Enemy" whose designs and tactics he has committed his entire life to studying in preparation for fulfilling his destiny. As for Legolas, if you wish to call him a Ranger because he uses a bow (cf. Robin Hood above), you don't need to look any further than the 1E elf who knew the languages of his most hated foes: orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, and gnolls.</blockquote>