It also shows early that traveling on foot is hard, that you need food to survive, that cold weather can be murderous, that drinking bad water can be dangerous, and that trying to be smarter than the road you’ll get lost.
Also shows effects of old age and PTSD well.
And it shows age as something very different from mainstream popular culture, where the best part of life happens somewhere in 18-23.
LOTR in general was written by a person who had spent some time in WWI trenches.
It may not be very specific on the issue of Aragorn’s pants’ existence, but touches a few times on how death smells and on wounds and how easy it is to die.
IIRC not a lot of time has gone since the party discovered Frodo’s disappearance, went searching for them, then the younger hobbits and Boromir encountered Orcs, and then Aragorn heard Boromir’s horn and ran down to find Boromir dying and have a short conversation.
I suspect the original comment’s author just isn’t familiar with that book, having seen only that movie with plenty of CGI.
They did, people who opposed firearms were usually of the “nutcase extremist” kind. Nothing like “the mainstream of the traditional society” or something.
Also the funny part about Japanese traditions is that they don’t see Christianity as alien. It was quite popular, albeit prosecuted, in the “authentic” past.