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Who would have been best for Aragorn?
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Author:  Elwing_Star_Spray [ December 30th, 2007, 6:38 pm ]
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I agree. Eowyn is an oustanding role model for feminists everywhere.

Author:  Naerwen [ December 30th, 2007, 6:40 pm ]
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She is an amazing character :D

Author:  Elwing_Star_Spray [ December 30th, 2007, 6:52 pm ]
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Eowyn, to me, represents the person who everyone expects to do one thing : be a woman. She's not expected, or wanted, to fight. Eowyn is supposed to be obedient, do what she's told. Eowyn is the polar opposite of that.

Author:  Naerwen [ December 30th, 2007, 8:10 pm ]
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I agree she is expected to support her superiors, the men. Uphold the household, while the men are gone. She is to lead the people, while the men are away, but is not expected to do any fighting.
To a certain level she resents this, she feels like she is being suppressed. She seeks to show her abilities.

Author:  Elwing_Star_Spray [ December 31st, 2007, 1:01 am ]
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Exactly! That's precisely what I'm trying to say.

Author:  Naerwen [ December 31st, 2007, 7:10 am ]
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Hehe we have an understanding. So even though Eowyn is an amazing character, Arwen is still better suited for one another, they have sacrificed so much to be together and that in a sense is love in its purist form.

Author:  Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ December 31st, 2007, 7:21 am ]
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I think Arwen and Aragorn are best suited for one another... can't think of any reasoning to that, admittedly, but... yes.
Someone must have mentioned it somewhere in this thread already, but Tolkien originally intended for Aragorn to marry Eowyn and not Arwen... what a different outcome that would have been :erm:

Author:  Naerwen [ December 31st, 2007, 7:23 am ]
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I don't think it would have been true happiness. They would be happy for a while but not for long I think.

Author:  Elwing_Star_Spray [ December 31st, 2007, 12:32 pm ]
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Haldir o Lórien wrote:
Someone must have mentioned it somewhere in this thread already, but Tolkien originally intended for Aragorn to marry Eowyn and not Arwen... what a different outcome that would have been :erm:


Are you serious? I've never heard that. I don't think anyone has mentioned that before.

Author:  Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ December 31st, 2007, 2:10 pm ]
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I read it in one of the books... I think it was The Treason of Isengard?
But yeah, it would seem as though he married Eowyn because he felt sorry for her...

Author:  Elwing_Star_Spray [ December 31st, 2007, 3:51 pm ]
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Wow. I guess I'll have to read that :).

Author:  Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ December 31st, 2007, 4:05 pm ]
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Yeah you should! :P
It's one of my favourites, because it contains notes of what Tolkien intended LotR to be like... (for example, "Haldir" was originally named "Hathaldir" :teehee: )
Vol. VII

Author:  Elwing_Star_Spray [ December 31st, 2007, 5:19 pm ]
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Do you know where I could get my hands on one? I haven't seen any in book stores.


Sorry to get off topic...

Author:  Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ December 31st, 2007, 5:33 pm ]
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You can order it off Amazon or something similar... they always have plenty, the bookstores in my city don't carry any anymore either.

But apparently Aragorn loved Eowyn too, originally.

Author:  Elwing_Star_Spray [ December 31st, 2007, 6:53 pm ]
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I don't order things off the Internet, so I guess I'm out of luck. Ah, well. No matter. Thanks for the information!

Author:  ~ladyofrohan* [ January 13th, 2008, 6:39 am ]
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arwen for me is the best match for him[besides me of course]

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