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Many on this and the other thread characterize her attraction to Aragorn as a “crush.” This is terribly unfair to Éowyn on many levels.
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Bill, I am not certain of your point here. You go on to describe exactly what a crush is: attraction that falls short of love, and is based "outside" factors such as power, image, etc. I think the assessment of Eowyn's feelings as a crush is accurate. I don't think it reflects poorly on Eowyn to be attracted to Aragorn. He is a great man and worthy of any woman's attention.
Arwen Imladris raises a good argument against Aragorn being attracted to Eowyn at all though. As she said, Eowyn is describe as not yet having reached womanhood. Aragorn is of the line of Elros and possesses a long life span. I don't know how old he is when this all goes down, but his feelings could have been more "big brotherly" than anything else. Earlier I said I thought there definitly was a triangle of sorts, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe it was more of a one sided thing from Eowyn.