[Faramir Fan]

I was upset about this in another thread but I think people got the wrong idea as to why. <P>I have said this before but I think PJ has to be very careful with the Faramir/Eowyn pairing. If it is minimalized too much it will seem trivial and will seem to the mainstream audience that Eowyn is just settling for Faramir, because she can't have Aragorn. I don't like this, for both the characters of Eowyn and Faramir.<P>Why I was upset that the Houses of Healing will be downplayed is because obviously those scenes were shot and in filming PJ seemed to make an effort to do it right, but I worry that unless he picks them up somewhere else, what I fear will become a reality...To me this is doing a great diservice to Tolkien, especially because it has been said that the character of Faramir was the one that Tolkien himself identified with the most. <P>Personally I don't care about elves at Helm's Deep or Aragorn falling off the cliff. I didn't like "evil" Faramir, but I know PJ does things for plot reasons and hopefully it was done to set up his redemption in ROTK. The truth is that he does make changes for plot reasons and I can live with them because they make a better movie. <P>But the one thing I can't live with is making the Faramir/Eowyn pairing trivial...