Like a Servent, As a King

Suddenly the Ranger reached out and clasped the flat edge between his hands. Gingerly, he let his fingers fall to rest over sharp edges. "Boromir," he lowered his voice, "So long as you don't do me grievous injury or, worse, death, you may do with me what you will." In which Aragorn takes a pounding for the sake of the Company as two Hobbits watch the whole thing unfold.