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Originally Posted by Alcuin
But maybe Aragorn wasn’t looking for Orcs in Moria at all: maybe he was just “an adventurer”, though that would strike me as very “un-Aragorn”. Mere darkness would not have daunted Aragorn. If he didn’t meet Orcs in Moria, do you suppose he got an early glimpse of Durin’s Bane? I vote for Orcs.
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I don't mean to slight Aragorn's valour, but I highly doubt that he'd have lived to tell the tale if he'd faced Durin's Bane, and if he had, it would have been unconscionable not to be more explicit in his warnings to Gandalf. On the other hand, I'm not sure that the mere presence of Orcs would have made such a lasting impression on him as to justify the ominous tone in which he speaks of his earlier visit to Moria. So it's rather a mystery to me what exactly he met there that made his memory of Moria so "very evil". Maybe some 'nameless thing' that had become bored with gnawing the roots of the world and ventured up to the lower levels?