Eowyn, Aragorn and Arwen - an analysis

[Silmarien]

Whoa!<BR>When I started reading this I never knew it would be so long but well done everyone this is intelligent debate. I hope mine is intelligent too just Eowyn is my favourite character.<P>In the book Aragorn looking back on his knowledge of Eowyn says this<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>She is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked and percieved her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. or was it maybe, a frost that had turned it's sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>He admires her yes, but is not(in the book) phisically attracted to her.<BR>Whereas Arwen he's like wow Luthien reborn beatiful with a capital B. (I didn't put that very well so I hope you know what I mean) then they meet in Lorien she falls in love with him and they get to know each other and then they plight their troth. Aragorn also says<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned....And yet Eomer I say that she loves you more truly than me; for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>But as you all say the movie is quite different Aragorn is what you could call a free agent and feelings aren't as well defined. No one says "and Eowyn got a crush on Aragorn (but he did not return the love) or (he perceived that and considered her).