At Bree in the Inn of the Prancing Pony, the group met Strider/aka Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) (the wandering, outcast, exiled heir of Isildur to the throne of Gondor) who helped protect and guide them.Lydecker? Was she in love with you?Lydecker: Laura considered me the wisest, the wittiest, the most interesting man she""d ever met.With his strong body frame supported by a surgically-grafted metal alloy (adamantium) skeleton, he remained "King of the Cage" - a way for him to make a meager living." According to her, Falcone was destroying everything his parents stood for, and he was no better: "Good people like your parents, who""ll stand against injustice, they""re gone.