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every now and then think that it would be nice to somehow obtain a little more power?
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It’s clear, of course, that Éowyn’s is a life in which more power would be very welcome, but I don’t think that she would separate Aragorn from his kingliness in the way that we’re trying to do in this thread. The power that he exudes is part of him, and of his charisma generally, and even (as far as his role in the book goes) related to his being a good man. She describes him as “high and excellent,” words that work on many different levels; he is high in the kingly sense,
and in the moral sense,
and in the sense in which it is applied to the High Elves—able to tap into something greater. I suspect that she sees him more or less in the light of a fantasy of a man made real; he is
everything that she would like a man to be, and that includes, but is not limited to, being king. I doubt she would have been attracted to Isildur. In any case, Faramir is a much more suitable choice, because she sees him as a human being.
As for Aragorn’s feelings toward Éowyn, I had seen the relationship much as Arwen Imladris and Keneldil the Polka-dot (now there’s a name) do; I had imagined that she would seem very immature to him (standing next to him, she seems immature to me), and I’d planned to quote the feelings that Elrond predicts in Arwen toward Aragorn:
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to her you are but as a yearling beside a young birch of many summers.
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But Elrond was wrong, and I begin to think that so was I. While explaining to Éowyn why she can’t accompany him on the Paths of the Dead, Aragorn says
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Were I to go where my heart dwells, far in the North I would now be wandering in the fair valley of Rivendell.
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So their conversation makes him think of Arwen, and he’s even drawing a comparison between his exile from her and Éowyn’s duty that keeps her away from him, Aragorn. He may even be comparing the two of them, since this is a moment at which comparison seems almost inevitable, if you're going to bring her up at all. There’s a triangle for you.
--Belin Ibaimendi
[ November 10, 2002: Message edited by: Belin ]