My main problem with this is of all the stories they could have picked, as much of a fan of
Aragorn as I am, they have picked one with very little textual reference. We know virtually nothing of the character of Arathorn. We actually know very little of the life styles of the Northern Dunedian. That is one place I've always been interested in, how a hunted
race managed to keep enough of a breeding population to maintain a pure line, without intermixing with "lesser folks." Apparently there were enough female
Dunedain that none of Aragorn's grandfathers had to slip over to
Bree and nab themselves a wife . . . though I always imagined that you could write a wonderful Romeo and Juliet story involving a simple
inn keepers daughter in love with a mysterious young
Ranger. I thought about writing it for a long time when I was in middle school and finally did write it but changed the locations in an attempt to own the story myself . . . and being 14 at the time, it is the sappiest thing you can possibly imagine . . . ok, sorry, bad Elgee tangent.
Anyway, I have heard a Ranger
city mentioned but we don't know how big it was, if it was a
hidden city or simply too small to be of note to
other races. I've never seen it on any
maps, at least.
My point is, they are going to have to make a lot of this up, which leads to a lot of messing with
Tolkien's vision. While there is a lot of revisionism in the existing movies, it is basically the same plot and locations, and most of the characters are the same. Not really possible here. Only a handful of the players are even named.