[Guinevere]

I agree completely with you, Tar-Palantir. <P>Eowyn's feelings for Aragorn seem to me more like a kind of hero-worship and she sees in him the hero who might rescue her of her constricted situation. And Aragorn, in the book, has never for a second flirted with her. The moment he notices her beginning infatuation, he is deeply troubled. He feels sorry for her and yet has a remarkable understanding for her.(Mark his words about her in the houses of healing.) <P>But since this thread is in the Film- section, we're supposed to talk about the movie-characters, I guess. And those are just not quite the same persons, alas! <BR>Eowyn is shown rather more warmhearted and sympathetic in the movie. <BR>Aragorn in the movie never shows his "kingly" side. Already in FotR he is less sure of himself, he doesn't really want to become king, and is even willing to renounce Arwen, although he loves her. <BR>In TTT it is shown how Elrond talks him into letting Arwen go."It was only a dream" he tells her. So while he is riding with the Rohirrim and talking to Eowyn, he thinks that Arwen is actually leaving Middle Earth and his memories of her are only nostalgic. This leaves him in quite a different position to Eowyn than in the book! He doesn't actually encourage Eowyn, but he considers her, at least.<BR>I don't quite know what I should think, I feel kind of schizophrenic, viewing those two different sets of characters which are supposed to be the same. <BR>I only wonder how PJ will eventually manage to bring Arwen back? He has now changed so much that more changes (and omissions) must follow. <P>