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"Gondor, Gondor!" cried Aragorn. " . . . Not yet does my road lie southward to your bright streams. . . . " . . . drawing his eyes away from the South, and looking out west and north to the way that he must tread. (LR III 2)
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This confirms what I said in the previous chapter:
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. . . the other choice he was pondering while in Lothlórien--going to Minas Tirith--was made irrelevant for the moment. (Nilpaurion)
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He knew going to Minas Tirith was important--Mandos, he promised it to Boromir--, but he chose to go after his friends first.
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[Éomer: ]But there is something strange about you, Strider. . . . That is no name for a Man that you give. (ibid)
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It seems Éomer and Aragorn already had a bond. He can see through Aragorn's "Strider" disguise!