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Originally Posted by Sauron the White

Redbeard has it pretty much right. Aragorn is the consumate fighter with skill that would would compare to Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan in their respective fields. He did not even bat an eye to Eowyn and - while she has more skill than otherwise might be initially guessed at - it was nothing compared to Aragorn. He was just playing cat and mouse with her.

But what of the standard canards of:

• David versus Goliath

• The strongest/mightiest doesn't always win

• This is Peter Jackson's LotR

• Logic is futile

But it was cute.

Eowyn seemed a little unhinged at the moment (i.e. Lost Eomer, lost Theodred, lost her job in caring for Theoden, lost Wormtongue, ...), and wasn't there something more useful she would have been doing than to be swinging a sword around 'indoors?' I wouldn't let my little ones play with as much as an umbrella.