Magic The Gathering has revealed that Aragorn is now BLACK!

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Is Aragorn Black In The Source Material?
Not really, but it's never clearly stated, and it's certainly possible. In the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien only vaguely describes Aragorn's physical appearance:

...a shaggy head of dark hair flecked with grey, and in a pale stern face a pair of keen grey eyes.

But we know that Aragorn is one of the Dúnedain, and they are described in this way in the Silmarillion:

...and they were tall, taller than the tallest of the sons of Middle Earth; and the light of their eyes was like bright stars. But their numbers increased only slowly in the land, for their daughters and sons were born to them, fairer than their fathers, yet their children were few.

Based on both descriptions all we can deduce is that Aragorn is tall, fair, and has beautiful eyes.

However, if we're willing to accept the works of the author's son, Christopher Tolkien, as lore-compliant, then we do have sources that suggest black people existed in Middle Earth for a very long time. As Christopher writes in The Peoples of Middle Earth, one of the tribes of the Edain (prehistoric men) was racially diverse:

There were fair-haired men and women among the Folk of Bëor, but most of them had brown hair (going usually with brown eyes), and many were less fair in skin, some indeed being swarthy.

It could therefore be possible that one or more of Aragorn's ancestors could have come from the House of Bëor and through them, he inherited a darker skin tone. Which would be uncommon for one of the Dúnedain, but not impossible based on the source material.

This is a bit more tenuous than black hobbits, which do explicitly exist in Tolkien's own writing, but never let someone tell you that black Aragorn goes completely against the lore as written. There's nothing in the text that rules out this possibility.


What are your thoughts on him being black now?