Gwaihir>>
Aragorn, too, went through a similar journey; but his was more down-to-earth and grim, perhaps. Tuor was aided by the supernatural, back in the misty and magic ages of the First Age; but in the late Third, as Middle-Earth had developed into a more earthly and realistic world, the world in fact of Men, and Aragorn's journey -- while in some ways similar -- was not quite so magical.
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You're right, Gwaihir. Aragorn's journey was also spiritual. He was called Estel (hope) and also battled evil in the wilderness for long years. He became "the most hardy of living men" and was "elven-wise."
When he was clothed by Galadriel "in silver and white, with a cloak of elven-grey and a bright gem on his brow"... "Then more than any kind of Men he appeared, and seemed rather an Elf-lord from the Isles of the West."
Also after he died, his body lay uncorrupted (reminiscent of many Saints), "an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world."
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But let us not be overthrown at the final test, who of old renounced the Shadow and the Ring. In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them more than memory. Farewell!
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