Hope-lessly in love

[charly]

What touched me so much about éoeyn´s love is how much effort she put in it. With Aragorn she connected leaving her whole miserable life behind, being herself for a change and experiencing happiness. When Aragorn didn´t return her love, éowyn decided everything she had wasn´t worth it anymore. When she rode to Minas Tirith she´d decided to die, feeling she would never feel even a glimpse of happiness again. But she did. Isn´t it ironic that Eowyn experienced love once more in the city that was Aragorn´s city, of all places? Something else: at one point, Eowyn says:

No longer I desire to be a queen

When I came across that line, it woke somehow the impression in me, that one of Eowyn´s intrests was to be a queen =>was to rule. I´m not saying Eowyn was heartless and only intrested in power- I sure DON`T think so- but consider this: She probably never experienced anything close to what she felt for Aragorn... and now she´s maybe just trying to explain to herself what´s happening with her.
Many of you-and so did Tolkien himself- say that Eowyn didn´t love Aragorn, but the idea of being in love. I don´t really agree. I don´t think Eowyn really knew how being in love felt. She knew that there was something inside her, something new, something powerful. And because it was so new to her, she put everything into this feeling... everything she had.

[ October 06, 2002: Message edited by: charly ]