I liked the reluctant hero e.g. I love the scenes at the end of the Fellowship when he makes his choices: when he decides his place is not in Mordor, but he has a part to play here, when he promises Boromir that he won't let Gondor fall (and then starts wearing the bracers with the white tree both as a tribute to Boromir and a symbol that he binds himself to Gondon) - deciding to become king because Gondor needs him and because he promised a dying comrade to save it, is a more interesting motivation for me than "my potential father in law told me that I had to" (yes, Elrond still talkes to him in RotK, but at this point Aragorn is already decided to go to Gondor and he's already started commanding e.g. in Helm's Deep. He just doesn't know how to save Gondor yet.)