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Aragorn and Arwen are wedded and when �omer returns to bring the body of Th�oden back to Edoras, Faramir accompanies the party to Edoras. It is there that �owyn and Faramir formally plighted their troth.
At last when the feast drew to an end �omer arose and said: 'Now this is the funeral feast of Th�oden the King; but I will speak ere we go of tidings of joy, for he would not grudge that I should do so, since he was ever a father to �owyn my sister. Hear then all my guests, fair folk of many realms, such as have never before been gathered in this hall! Faramir, Steward of Gondor, and Prince of Ithilien, asks that �owyn Lady of Rohan should be his wife, and she grants it full willing. Therefore they shall be trothplighted before you all.'
And Faramir and �owyn stood forth and set hand in hand; and all there drank to them and were glad. 'Thus,' said �omer, 'is the friendship of the Mark and of Gondor bound with a new bond, and the more do I rejoice.'
'No niggard are you, �omer,' said Aragorn, 'to give thus to Gondor the fairest thing in your realm!'
Then �owyn looked in the eyes of Aragorn, and she said: 'Wish me joy, my liege-lord and healer!'
And he answered: 'I have wished thee joy ever since first I saw thee. It heals my heart to see thee now in bliss.'
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