I watching The Lord of the Rings movies, and I just came across the scene in The Two Towers where Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas are on the orc pyre. After a few moments of despair when they think Merry and Pippen are dead, he starts tracking them. "there was a hobbit here"..."they crawled this way"..."they were bound". I don't know how many times I have seen this movie, and always it seemed unlikely because of the commotion between orcs and horsemen that had happened the night before. Today was the first time I saw something deeper.
How does someone learn to track? I would assume that you can only learn by example. You can't know that the tracks you see are wolf tracks unless you had been told or shown what they look like. Same goes for everything, how can you recognize something without know what it should look like?
So how did Aragorn know what it looked like for for a child sized person to crawl away with his hands bound? I just suddenly have problems with this and had to mention it.
