[Lush]

Sorry, Lush, but it's a bit too late for that...

It's never too late! I wonder if I could ever be like one of those ladies on the TV, you know, the ones holding hands with Pat Robertson and whatnot... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I don't think that Aragorn would have really been atracted to a girl who wasn't a women.

A lot of men are, actually. Then again, this is Aragorn we are talking about here.

Who couldn't help but be curious about Lush's self-revelations!

I'll PM the curious parties sometime. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

This whole love/ and or attraction thing is merely a small part of the larger picture. I'd rather see Eomer get his part in the fighting than see a 15 minute scene of romance and relationship junk. Being a boy, I do find all of it very boring.

There's nothing wrong with that. Then again, you must be young, dearest Helkasir.

However, I believe that portraying that temptation as a "love triangle" is way off. For example, in a healthy modern marriage, the husband will occasionally look at a hot girl walking by. That doesn't mean that there is a love triangle with him, that girl, and his wife. It just means he's being human. I think playing that glance up until it becomes a huge issue goes against what Tolkien meant.

Well, that's true, but you must also remember that at the time Aragorn first meets Eowyn, he's not exactly married. In fact, at that point, absolutely nothing is certain in Middle Earth, and Arwen's message to Aragorn is clear on that. Either hope comes, or it doesn't, you see?
Of course, having this turn into a "huge issue" is against the spirit of Tolkien, but only if that's coming from the perspective of Aragorn. For Eowyn it is a huge issue.

Aragorn and Arwen have true love to tie them together, and Tolkien, I believe, wanted to emphasize that their bond was more than just sex.

Of course. If you go back to my original post, that's pretty much exactly what I said. I was mostly wondering about Aragorn's feelings for Eowyn, however.

What I haven't written about, and what nobody has yet mentioned, is Aragorn's attitude toward Eowyn later in the story. It's mentioned only a few times, but the whole "feel" is different. I think when he heals her, that's when the "brotherly love" that a few of us have mentioned really surfaces for the first time. Before, I just always wondered...