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Thanks for the free promotion, Belin. <P>The way Peter Jackson has handled Aragorn's character so far, one would only be surprised if Eowyn didn't interest him in some tiny [physical?] sense. <P>I think the key here is what exactly the term "attraction" signifies and how important it actually is to the rest of the story. <P>If an attraction is a flighty bodily impulse, it often has about <I>zero</I> importance, on the screen or on the page, besides reminding the observer of a character's inherent humanity. <P>Did Aragorn think Eowyn "fair"? You bet your As-faloth he did. Did it mean that he was thinking of ditching Arwen and pursuing his blond ambition? Nah. He loved Arwen. <P>But just because you love someone doesn't mean that you don't necessarily become stunned or even overwhelmed by another person's good looks, good character, or whatever it is you find appealing. Does that automatically translate into a betrayal of love? I highly doubt it. <P>I belive in TTT, Jackson was succesful in handling the Aragorn/Eowyn dynamic, in that he showed Aragorn to be clearly noticing her, but without that whole overdone "ooh baby baby" aspect to his gaze that would have made him seem like a cad. <P>The thing is, Jackson's interpretation of Aragorn makes him obviously human (remember the look on Viggo's face when the Ring tempts him toward the end of FotR?); he's a great man, but still a man. This is true to the spirit of the book, because while Tolkien' never explicitly got inside Aragorn's head (except for the Appendices, and even then the story was pretty detached), I don't believe he wanted us to feel that Aragorn was some sort of mythic version of a Middle-Earth saint.