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>whereas Aragorn generally only occasionally wears chain mail or leather.
Aragorn's not wearing a light outfit because he thinks it's the most effective thing for a battle. He's wearing that stuff because he spends nearly the entire adventure traveling on foot. He dons chainmail because it's the only thing that was fucking available at Helm's Deep; the only guy who had access to plate there was the literal king of the realm.
Did George forget that every single soldier in Gondor is kitted out in a full plate harness?