"You will have that shield in your hand at all times," creative director Hugo Martin explains in an interview with Gamesradar+, "you're basically dual-wielding. I want players to feel like Aragorn ...
One part of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, would have made Aragorn's movie story so much better, but it was cut. Legolas got to surf down some stairs on a shield ...