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Also, when it slips of Gollum's hand, and Frodo decides to put it on a chain because Bilbo told him it had a tendancy to slip off. It seems that when the Ring is done with it's current bearer, it tries to get away. Once the bearer can be no more help or aid to the ring, it tries to get away, by slipping off, or in Frodo's case, since he wore it on a chain by becoming heavier.
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hope I'm not getting too far off topic, so I think I'll, ask about Eowyn? For she's always been an interesting character, and I've never really been able to fully grasp her. What was her biggest thing to overcome? Would it be getting over the early lust of Aragorn? And she gets over that lust when she falls in love and marries Faramir?
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Awww I was liking the direction the thread was taking. Now, regarding Eowyn, I think she was also suffering by the death of Theoden's son (which would be Eowyn's cousin, right?), the bad times Rohan was going to and the decay of Theoden himself. When Gandalf helps Theoden recover, Eowyn is already hurt and furthermore the shadows cast by Sauron are not gone and so her heart is afflicted. She wants to help the cause by fighting in the war yet, as a woman, she's not allowed to do so and it adds to her grief. She goes to battle anyway and she kills the Lord of the Nazghul yet when she recovers from the wounds she suffered she finds Theoden dead and a very possible defeat in the hands of Mordor.
If all that wasn't enough, she falls for Argorn, but I think that was because he was THE warrior of his time. She was in love with Argorn the fighter, the one who fought side by side with Theoden and was the last hope for Gondor and the whole of middle earth, not by Argorn the man (who also happened to be in love with Arwen)
After Sauron falls the darkness lifts from her heart and she opens her eyes to Faramir (who also was a great captain of his army) and the rest is history
At least, that's my take on Eowyn, one of my favourite characters.
Edit: Posted at the same time than Kuruharan. I can't really recall Tolkien saying that, but maybe it was not on LoTR