29 September | In the House of Tom Bombadil - Flight to the Ford
Introduced to the hobbits as Strider, Aragorn becomes their guide. He’s Gandalf’s friend, as revealed through the letter Gandalf had left for Frodo. While Sam distrusts him at first, Frodo feels he can trust him.
Aragorn is shown to be knowledgeable in the healing arts when Frodo gets stabbed by a Nazgûl. He soothes Frodo’s wound using athelas/kingsfoil, a weed found in the wild (I’ll let you tinker on the symbolism of that).