Faramir and Eowyn: Was Tolkien just pairing off?

[mark12_30]

Lush dear,

You wrote,

You know, today it struck me that women chase after unavailable men are usually the same women that reject the men who offer them unconditional love and support.

Very true. But note your words: "usually the same woman".

Eowyn had come face to face with real death. She had watched it take her uncle, and she herself had lain in its embrace.

Nothing short of the beatific vision will change and mature you faster than that. Granted, at first her response was childish-- Give me a sword and let me go die-- but then she reconsiders (under Faramir's healing influence) and says, "I will become a healer." She was not the same woman anymore. Somewhere, she opened her heart and let herself be changed deep down.

[ September 21, 2002: Message edited by: mark12_30 ]