User blog:So-Pro Warrior/Aragorn II Elessar vs. Leonidas I



In the previous Battle, the Green Lantern Corps proved themselves to be the best of the Protector's of Peace. And now, in this battle, it is time for  these two great Warrior King's to go head to head!



 Aragorn II Elessar 

'''Ranger of the North and the True King of Gondor! Who would lead the Men of the West against the forces of Saruman and Sauron. '''

VS!

Leonidas I

The Greek-Hero King of Sparta who led 300 Spartan Warriors against the invading Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae!



Aragorn II Elessar


Biography= "Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Man comes crashing down. But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth,I bid you stand, Men of the West!"

- Aragorn II Elessar

Aragorn II, son of Arathorn II and Gilraen, also known as Elessar, was the 16th Chieftain of the Dúnedain of the North; he was later crowned King Elessar Telcontar, the 26th King of Arnor, and the 35th King of Gondor and First High King of the Reunited Kingdom. He was a great warrior, and as the heir of Isildur bore the shards of Narsil, reforged and renamed Andúril ("Flame of the West"), in the War of the Ring.

Aragorn was a descendant of Elros Tar-Minyatur, Lord Elrond the Half-elf's twin brother and the first king of Númenor. His ancestor Arvedui was wedded to Fíriel, who bore their son Aranarth, making Aragorn the last descendant of Anárion as well.

When Aragorn was only two years old, his father Arathorn was killed while pursuing orcs. Aragorn was afterwards fostered in Rivendell by Elrond. At the request of his mother, his lineage was kept secret, as she feared he would be killed like his father and grandfather if his true identity as the descendant of Elendil and Heir of Isildur became known. Aragorn was renamed Estel and was not told about his heritage until 2951.

Elrond revealed to "Estel" his true name and ancestry when he was twenty, and gave to him the Ring of Barahir and the Shards of Narsil. Elrond withheld the Sceptre of Annúminas from Aragorn until he "came of the right" to possess the item. It was also around this time that Aragorn met and fell in love with Arwen, Elrond's daughter, newly returned from her mother's homeland of Lórien where she had visited her grandmother Galadriel.

Aragorn thereafter assumed his proper role as the sixteenth Chieftain of the Dúnedain and the Rangers of the North and left the comforts of Rivendell for the wild, where he lived with the remainder of his people, whose kingdom had been destroyed through civil and regional wars centuries before.

Aragorn met Gandalf the Grey in 2956, and they became close friends. Heeding Gandalf's advice, Aragorn and the Rangers began to guard a small land known as the Shire inhabited by the diminutive and agrarian Hobbits, and he became known among the peoples just outside the Shire's borders as Strider. Weapons and Armor=



Leonidas I


Biography= "A new age has begun. An age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it."

- Leonidas

Leonidas I also known as Leonidas the Brave was a Greek hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line, third son of Anaxandridas II of Sparta, who was believed to be a descendant of Heracles, possessing much of the latter's strength and bravery.

According to Herodotus, Leonidas' mother was his father's niece and had been barren for so long that the ephors, the five annually elected administrators of the Spartan constitution, tried to prevail upon King Anaxandridas to set aside his wife and take another. Anaxandridas refused, claiming his wife was blameless, whereupon the ephors agreed to allow him to take a second wife without setting aside his first. This second wife, a descendent of Chilon the Wise, promptly bore a son, Cleomenes. However, one year after Cleomenes' birth, Anaxandridas' first wife also gave birth to a son, Dorieus. Leonidas was the second son of Anaxandridas' first wife, and either the elder brother or twin of Cleombrotus. Because Leonidas was not heir to the throne, he was not exempt from attending the agoge, the public school that the sons of all Spartans had to complete in order to qualify for citizenship. Leonidas was thus one of the few Spartan kings to have ever undergone the notoriously harsh training of Spartan youth.

Anaxandridas died in 520 BC, and Cleomenes succeeded to the throne sometime between then and 516 BC. Dorieus was so outraged that the Spartans had preferred his half-brother over himself that he found it impossible to remain in Sparta. He made one unsuccessful attempt to set up a colony in Africa and, when this failed, sought his fortune in Sicily, where after initial successes he was killed. Leonidas' relationship with his bitterly antagonistic elder brothers is unknown, but he married Cleomenes' daughter, Gorgo sometime before coming to the throne in 490 BC. Weapons and Armor=



X-Factors
Aragorn-Leonidas

80 Training 90 

Edge Leonidas: While Aragorn probably went through some difficult training when it came to being a Ranger of the North, Leonidas literally went through a really hellish training from when he was a kid, trying to survive out in the wilderness on his own, trained to resist pain, the Spartans are known for their brutal training courses and that's what makes Spartans the ancient Greek "tanks".

 95 Combat Experience 80

Edge Aragorn: The only battle Leonidas fought in was the Battle of Thermopylae. Aragorn on the other hand participated in the entirity of the War of the Ring, fighting alongside the Fellowship from the Mines of Moria to Amon Hen, and then from the battles of Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields and the final Battle of the Black Gate leading the forces of the Men of the West. Along the way fighting many powerful foes ranging from Ringwraiths to Orcs and Uruk-Hai and Goblins, to men and other beasts like trolls where as Leonidas mostly fought human persian soldiers and then the (really odd looking) Persian Immortals.

100 Leadership 100

Edge Even: Both Leonidas and Aragorn are great leaders, both of them led vastly outnumbered forces against their enemy and managed to cause massive casualties to the enemy forces before being killed themselves/Frodo destroyed the One Ring. Both of them have the loyalty of their men and friends around them who would follow them without question.

75 Brutality 90 

Edge Leonidas: Another thing about Spartans were they're brutal nature when it came to combat. In combat the Spartans proved that they can viciously kill many Persian warriors, then using the bodies from the first battle as a wall and ambush point against the Persian Immortals. Aragorn could be very brutal too, but only to those who were definitely enemy troops as he made Theoden spare the likes of Grima Wormtongue even after all he had done to Rohan.

 90 Skill 85

Edge Aragorn: While Leonidas is skilled as a Spartan warrior, the fact that Aragorn can go toe to toe with five Nazgul, and then later on a single troll (albeit he didn't take it down) and also decimate his way through Uruk-Hai, Goblins, and Orcs when vastly outnumbered means that he is not a Ranger to be trifled with.

Battle Notes
The battle will be 5 vs. 5: Aragorn and four Gondor Soldiers vs. Leonidas and four Spartans

 Battle Location   Timeline   Voting System
 * The Forest Hill of Amon Hen
 * Before the Final Battle of 300
 * After the Events of Return of the King


 * 7+ Sentences or Very Good Comparisons=1 Vote
 * 4-6 Sentences or Somewhat of a Good Comparison=1/2 Vote
 * Below 4 or Not a really good Comparison=Doesn't Count

​Personal Opinion
I give my edge to '''Aragorn. '''While Leonidas will prove to be a difficult opponent, I can see the King of Gondor coming out on top due to his better weapons and skills, as well as having faced vastly superior opponents compared to the Spartan King. While the argument of Leonidas having a shield will most likely come up, one has to take into consideration of how many Goblins, Orcs, and Uruk-Hai had shields themselves and yet Aragorn was able to work his way around them and still take them out. His sword is better then both of Leonidas' close range weapons, and his bow and arrow gives him the better range when compared to Leonidas and while he isn't no Legolas, he is still very skilled with it.

