Volunteering! The Hobbit, Full of Endless Beauty, Bravely Stepped Forward

Unlike the elf prince Legolas, who treated the matter with great solemnity, Aragorn himself, the person directly involved, said nothing further. Instead, he signaled in Elvish for his best buddy Legolas to stop talking.

After careful consideration, Aragorn, the future King of Men, finally stepped out from behind the scenes and once again reaffirmed his stance: there must be absolutely no thought of using the One Ring, not even the slightest hint of one, or else they would be tempted into corruption by it.

This time, although the meaning of his words was exactly the same, no one around the conference table rose to refute him. Even the most radical Boromir could only sit there with a gloomy expression and listen obediently.

That was the direct consequence of having a different identity!

When Fat Di called himself Huaiying, a man of Bing Prefecture, he was merely an obscure wandering physician. But when he said, "My surname is Di, my given name Renjie, and I am from Bing Prefecture. I hold the office of Grand Chancellor of the Phoenix Pavilion and Luan Terrace, serve additionally as Inspector-General, and concurrently act as Grand Commander of You Prefecture. By imperial decree, I am an imperial envoy entrusted with overseeing all military and political affairs in You Prefecture," he was the vice-emperor of Great Zhou, holding the power of life and death over everyone in You Prefecture.

Though he was still the same person, once his identity changed, the weight of his words naturally changed as well!

Aragorn at this moment and Di Renjie in the You Prefecture courtroom had much in common. Before and after revealing their identities, what they said had essentially meant the same thing, yet because of that change in status, the importance attached to those two nearly identical statements