Thorongil is a man who has known pirates. Never closely, never as anything but an enemy, but his last real battle in Gondor was against corsairs. When his dinner-guest calls himself a sea captain, something in Thorongil wonders...
But it's nothing more than a feeling, one that passes half-unnoticed. Captain Sparrow has done absolutely nothing suspect except vaguely remind Thorongil of a corsair, and that's no crime. His guard, while it is not completely down, does not raise further.
"I am called Thorongil," he replies -- called, for it is not his name, "and I have been many things in many places, but never a sea captain."
let me know if you'd rather Aragorn not get this impression! don't want to godmod
But it's nothing more than a feeling, one that passes half-unnoticed. Captain Sparrow has done absolutely nothing suspect except vaguely remind Thorongil of a corsair, and that's no crime. His guard, while it is not completely down, does not raise further.
"I am called Thorongil," he replies -- called, for it is not his name, "and I have been many things in many places, but never a sea captain."