Okay.
So JRRT admits that he didn't plan Aragorn. Aragorn just showed up in his head and announced he was there. He'd had elves in the Hobbit, but they felt very different than how they did in LotRs, and, really, all three major works (Hobbit, LotRs, The Silmarillion) feel vastly different from one another.
To suddenly have Aragorn in your head is to, quite literally, suddenly have the whole of this world in your head. Part of Aragorn's bloodline can be traced back before the world even existed. He probably saw the whole thing in a new light.
Stuff like this is why creativity just astounds me. I love the moments when you suddenly realize you have so much more to your story or when you write that one lyric that transforms your song into something great or when you've just been adding yarn to a project and suddenly it's not just 'the project' it's a doll. LOVE THAT.
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