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Originally Posted by Lalwendë
Why does everyone think Eowyn ends up with a bum deal? She gets Faramir and she gets a certain amount of power that she'd not have had stopping in Rohan, plus she's happy. There's not that much to fight for once the War is over anyway. Sounds alright to me  |
Because of the woman cannot be complete until she's married attitude. I don't like it that the whole of her appearence in Lotr seems to be just a quest for love and some tall, dark, handsome man. Her relationship with Faramir was much better than that with Aragorn, but it kind of spoils her story anyway. She would have been much better off as a spinster.
++ Lúthien
I'm not that great a fan of Lúthien either, but I pretty much dislike Merry. Lúthien is another example of a typical Tolkien woman who would give everything for love, and I can't help being annoyed by that.
But then on the other hand she was also independent and daring - unlike Arwen who sat nicely home and waited for Aragorn to claim the throne of Gondor, Lúthien ran away to fulfill her own destiny. Actually the first time I started liking her was on reading the Lay of Leithian:
She wavered, and she stayed her song.
'The road,' she said, 'was wild and long,
but Thingol sent me not, nor knows
what way his rebellious daughter goes.'
And one can't deny that she was quite skilful, what with her magic.