>>96484373
Oh, of course Tolkien *intended* Aragorn—along with every other significant character—to be white, and of course if MtG wanted art that made even a pretense of capturing what the world Tolkien meant to create might have looked like, they would've just gotten John Howe to do it. But I do find it amusing to consider what's consistent with the letter of the text, rather than the spirit.
I do think, though, that the MtG Aragorn's race is at most the fourth-most annoying thing about his depiction from a purist's perspective, after (1) the fact that the White Tree of Gondor on his tunic is gold, (2) his retarded crown, and (3) the fact that he's referred to in his capacity as King as "Aragorn" rather than "Elessar" (and then as the king only of Gondor, rather than of Gondor and Arnor, or of the Reunited Kingdom).
But it's worth noting that idiotic depictions of the Fellowship are nothing new; the MtG Aragorn is only *somewhat* worse than the supposedly "classic" Hildebrand one, who looks like he should be in a cheesy Hollywood adaptation of The Three Musketeers.
