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The boy was very little.
But this wasn’t a normal boy, this was the Heir of Isildur, and was his destiny to do great things.
“We need to change his name,” Elrond said to his mother: “to hide his true identity. We will call him Estel.”
He could feel that darker times were in Middle Earth’s future. The One Ring was still out there, and the Dark Lord would do anything to have it back.
But Elrond could see that Aragorn wasn’t like Isildur. He wouldn’t succumb to the Ring.
“Estel?” Gilraen asked: “What does it mean?”
“It means ‘Hope’.”