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Oh and by the way I got my brushes from Digital Bristle.

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Pictures from the movie etc.




::why Eowyn::
Well I`m sure that at other fan sites this section has been done to death. lol. So it`ll be brief. I like Eowyn because...she`s awesome. lol there`s not much to it really besides that.

::in the books::
As stated above she is awesome. In the books she`s just perfect. She`s first of all is a wistful sort of fairy tale princess kind of character, but then she also gets to kick arse. I can`t decide which part of her I like better. :) I also love her because she is very human. She`s far from perfect/makes mistakes and I like that.

::Eowyn and ???::
Before I start please note that I am only commenting on book Eowyn and other book characters. It is my personal opinion that Eowyn was only infatuated with Aragorn and never really loved him. She highly admired him because he was the future King of Gondor and well he was basically a pretty awesome guy. Now don`t get me wrong I love the angst and unrequited love of that part of her story because, well, I`m a hopeless romantic lol. However its my opinion that she gets someone better. I mean face it, Faramir is the perfect guy! He`s sweet, highly romantic, sensitive, gentle, brave, ok the list could go on and on, obviously I`m a fan. And if he wasn`t her true love then frankly I don`t think Tolkien would`ve spent pretty much an entire chapter detailing the events surrounding them (and its not in the appendices I must note mwa hahaha sorry I had to rub that in). Even Aragorn, the very person that she`s pining after, can see that Eowyn doesn`t really love him. He says to Eowyn`s brother Eomer *eh hem*, "I say to you that she loves you more truly than me; for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought." He can see that it`s not true love. And so can Faramir, he`s pretty confident when he says, "Eowyn, do you not love me, or will you not?" And plus he just nails my entire point when he says, "You desired to have the love of the Lord Aragorn. Because he was high and puissant, and you wished to have renown and glory and to be lifted far above the mean things that crawl on the earth. And as a great captain may to a young soldier he seemed to you admirable." Also when the book (talking about her feelings towards Faramir) says, "Then the heart of Eowyn changed, or else at last she understood it." I personally don`t think that the 'or else' in the sentence means 'it could be this or it could be that' I think rather it means 'or actually this is closer to how it was.' But no matter what Tolkien was thinking when he wrote the chapter, The Steward and the King, the fact remains that Faramir is wonderful. But then again lol for me it may just be that he is an eloquent speaker and well lol as people who know me personally know well, I am a sucker for guys with *eh hem* "pretty" words. *blushes*

::favorite moments/quotes::
Once again book only...lol and I hope you don`t mind if I have an insane number of these and they are all tediously broken down into minute detail lol after all you must understand Eowyn is my obsession. :)

:eowyn kicking arse:
When Merry sees Dernhelm (Eowyn disguised as a rider in case you didn`t know that). 'One looked up glancing keenly at the hobbit...less in height and girth than most. He caught the glint of clear grey eyes; and then he shivered, for it came suddenly to him that it was the face of one without hope who goes in search of death.'

When Merry talks to Dernhelm and he offers to take him hidden into battle. '"Where will wants not, a way opens, so we say," he wispered; "and so have I found myself...You wish to go wither the Lord of the Mark goes: I see it in your face...Then you shall go with me...I will bear you before me under my cloak until...this darkness is yet darker." "Thank you indeed!" said Merry. "Thank you, sir, though I do not know your name." "Do you not?" said the Rider softly. "Then call me Dernhelm."'

When Dernhelm stays by Theoden in battle when everyone else is gone. "But Theoden was not utterly forsaken. The knights of his house lay slain about him, or else mastered by the madness of their steeds were borne far and away. Yet one stood there still: Dernhelm the young, faithful beyond fear (*eh hem* *points to site name*); and he wept for he had loved his lord as a father."

When Merry begins to realize that Dernhelm isn`t lol well Dernhelm. "Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling some other voice that he had known."

When Dernhelm first confronts the Witchking. '"Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!" A cold voice answered: "Come not between the Nasgul and his prey"...A sword rang as it was drawn. "Do what you will; but I wil hinder it if I may."'

When Eowyn reveals herself to Merry/the Witchking. Witchking, '"Hinder me? Though fool. No living man may hinder me!" Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughted, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am...living or dark undead, I will smite you if you touch him."'

When she takes off her helmet. "The helm of her secrecy had fallen from her, and her bright hair, released from its bonds, gleamed with pale gold upon her shoulders. Her eyes grey as the sea were hard and fell, and yet tears were on her cheek. A sword was in her hand, and she raised her shield against the horror of her enemy`s eyes."

When Merry gets his courage up and decides that he must help Eowyn. "Into Merry`s mind flashed the memory of the face that he saw at the riding from Dunharrow: the face of one that goes seeking death, having no hope. Pity filled his heart...He clenched his hand. She should not die, so fair so desperate! At least she should not die alone, unaided."

When Eowyn (quite easily I must add hehehe!) hacks off the head of the winged beast. "It leaped into the air...shrieking, striking with beak and claw. Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible. A swift stroke she dealt, skilled and deadly. The outstretched neck she clove asunder, and the hewn head fell like a stone." (ok Peter Jackson don`t you DARE TELL ME! That there aren`t enough strong women in the books! *growls* *smashes things* and don`t even try to use that to justify Arwen`s flailing about a sword at the fords! *pukes*)

When Eowyn (with Merry`s help) kills the Witchking. 'But suddenly he [the Witchking] too stumbled forward with a cry of bitter pain, and his stroke went wide driving into the ground. Merry`s sword had stabbed him from behind..."Eowyn! Eowyn!" cried Merry. Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strenght she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulder bowed before her. The sword broke sparkling into many shards."

When Eomer sees Eowyn and thinks that she has died. *sniffle* 'Then suddenly He beheld his sister Eowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by and arrow through the heart; then his face went deathly white, and a cold fury rose in him..."Eowyn, Eowyn!" he cried at last. "Eowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!"'

When Prince Imrahil realizes that she is still barely alive! Yay! 'Then the prince seeing her beauty, though her face was pale and cold, touched her hand as he bent to look more closely on her. "Men of Rohan...She is hurt, to the death maybe, but I deem that she yet lives." And he held the bright-burnished vambrace that wa upon his arm before her cold lips, and behold! a little mist was laid on it hardly to be seen.'

:eowyn/faramir romance:
When Faramir first sees Eowyn. "He turned and saw the Lady Eowyn of Rohan; and he was moved with pity, for he saw that she was hurt, and his clear sight percieved her sorrow and unrest."

When Faramir tells Eowyn that he doesn`t have the power to release her from the Houses of Healing, but offers to do whatever else he can for her. '"What would you have me do, lady?...I also am a prisoner of the healers." He looked at her, and being a man whom pity deeply stirred , it seemed to him that her loveliness amid her grief would pierce his heart..."what do you wish?" he said again. "if it lies in my power, I will do it."

Eowyn "softens". "She did not answer, but as he looked at her it seemed to him that something in her softened, as though a bitter frost were yielding at the first gaint presage of Spring. A tear sprang in her eye and fell down her cheek like a glistening rain-drop."

Eowyn asks for her window "to look eastward". "But the healers would have me lie abed seven days yet...and my window does not look eastward."

Faramir amends the window situation and asks Eowyn to keep him company. 'Faramir smiled, though his heart was filled with pity. "Your window does not look eastward?...That can be amended...here you will find me, walking and waiting, and also looking east. It would ease my care, if you would speak to me, or walk at whiles with me."'

Faramir tells Eowyn that she`s beautiful. :-D 'She raised her head and looked him in the eyes again..."How should I ease your care, my lord?"...[Faramir]"Eowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. IN the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and maidens fairer still; but neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor so lovely, and so sorrowful. It may be that only a few days are left ere darkness falls upon our world...it would ease my heart, if while the Sun yet shines I could see you still."

When Faramir gives Eowyn the Starry Mantle. "Eowyn wore a great blue mantle of the colour of deep summer-night, and it was set with silver stars about hem and throat. Faramir had sent for this robe and had wrapped it about her; and he thought that she looked fair and queenly indeed as she stood there at his side...[it] seemed to him raiment fitting for the beauty and sadness of Eowyn."

When Faramir basically (but not directly) tells Eowyn that he doesn`t want the battle to be lost because he would loose her. "Eowyn, I would not have this world end now, or loose so soon what I hve found."

The "dreadful brink" part. Don`t know what else to call it. Very poetic, Amy likes. :) [Eowyn]"I know not what in these days you have found that you could lose...I stand upon some dreadful brink, and it is utterly dark in the abyss before my feet, but wether there is any light behind me I cannot tell. For I cannot turn yet. I wait for some stoke of doom."

Time Halts. (oh so swoony I do love it!) "It seemed to them as they stood upon the wall that the wind died, and the light failed, and the Sun was bleared, and all sounds in the City or in the lands about were hushed: neither wind, nor voice, nor bird-call, nor rustle of leaf, nor their own breath could be heard; the very beating of their heats was stilled. Time halted."

There hands clasp. *sigh* "And as they stood so, their hands met and clasped, though they did not know it."

Eowyn asks if he believes "Darkness" is coming. And he kisses her brow! YAY! '"Then you think that Darkness is coming?...Darkness Unescapable. I often dream of it." "No," said Faramir, looking into her face..."Eowyn, Eowyn, White Lady of Rohan, in this hour I do not believe that any darkness will endure!" And he stooped and kissed her brow.'

Their hair streams out. *swoon* "A great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air."

Faramir gives the reasons he is speculating that Eowyn doesn`t go to great the returning warriors after their victory/he asks her if she loves him. "Two reasons there may be, but which is true I do not know...you do not go because only your brother called for you, and to look on the Lord Aragorn...would now bring you no joy. Or because I do not go, and you desire still to be near me. And maybe for both these reasons, and you yourself cannot choose between them. Eowyn, do you not love me, or will you not?"

Eowyn`s tells him she doesn`t pity. "I wished to be loved by another...but I desire no man`s pity."

Faramir tells Eowyn that he loves her.'"Look at me, Eowyn!" And Eowyn looked at Faramir long and steadily; and Faramir said:"Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart...but I do not offer you my pity. For you are a lady high and valiant...and you are a lady beautiful, I deem, beyond even the words of the Elven-tongue to tell. And I love you. But now were you sorrowless...still I would love you. Eowyn do you not love me?"

Eowyn finally understands. 'Then the heart of Eowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her...'Behold! The Shadow has departed! I will be a shieldmaiden no longer...no longer do I desire to be a queen."'

Eowyn wonders how Faramirs people will react to their marraige. "Would you have your proud folk say of you: 'There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North! Was there no woman of the race of Numenor to choose?"

Faramir`s perfect and to the point response. And of course, the kiss. '"I would"...And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many. And many indeed saw them.'

Ok now I just must say this! UUUUR! Peter Jackson don`t you dare say that we need more romance in the movies! GRRRR! I`m sorry but that man is just so..so...hypocritical about it all! He says there`s not enough romance but then cuts out the one huge romance from the books in his movies! Yeah that makes so much sense.

::in the movies::
oh man you know I could go on and on about how they did this wrong and that wrong, but, I won`t don`t that. I will restrain myself. Basically its my opinion that Miranda Otto and (most of) the other actresses/actors=good, scriptwriters=bad lol. Frankly I just don`t think that they embodied the "spirit of Tolkien" as they say they did. They just didn`t. I know, that they couldn`t fit everything in, but the fact is that they took stuff out so they could add their own stuff in. I mean really who wants to see Liv Tyler crying every five minutes except some pervy fan-boy? and that brings me to a new subject...

::Arwen::
To be frank Arwen just annoys me. Not so much in the books as in the movies.

::in the books::
Arwen isn`t too bad in the books to be honest. She just sits there and looks pretty and its fine by me. The only time she gets kinda annoying is in the appendices when Aragorn is dying/dies. Just because she sits there and says how she doesn`t want to die the entire time.

::in the movies::
Once again this could go into an uber rant but I will restrain myself. To make it short I personally think that they butchered Arwen in the movies more than any other character except Faramir aka Filmamir. I mean come on, that wasn`t Arwen it was Liv Tyler in a dress and I`m just not buying it. They just turned a decent character into a whiney annoying elf girl who randomly wispers at odd moments in the movie and also says some of the cheesyest lines in history.