<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I am a woman and I still don't understand the idea that she needed to be "enhanced" for the women in the audience. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>She had to be enhanced because they wanted to play up the romance between her and Aragorn, not because she is a women. I don't think political correctness is part of the equation after all, they have Eowyn.<P>They needed to give her stuff to do to make her one of the main characters and to keep her familiar to the audience so that she doesn't appear the trophy bride at the end.<P>H.C.
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