Maybe Aragorn followed a strategy to not care about agents created in certain blackmail-like conditions, so that Sauron wouldn’t be able to get Aragorn to do anything just by creating sufficient numbers of orcs that wanted that thing.
Wow, cue sinister violin riffs as a scrolling footnote reminds me of the 3/5-of-a-person census rule for slaves in US history. 0⁄5 as proposed for Aragorn might have been considered as an alternative that led to a compromise.
Maybe Aragorn followed a strategy to not care about agents created in certain blackmail-like conditions, so that Sauron wouldn’t be able to get Aragorn to do anything just by creating sufficient numbers of orcs that wanted that thing.
Wow, cue sinister violin riffs as a scrolling footnote reminds me of the 3/5-of-a-person census rule for slaves in US history. 0⁄5 as proposed for Aragorn might have been considered as an alternative that led to a compromise.