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04-11-2002, 12:31 AM | #1 |
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Eowyn or Arwen?
Which is your faveorite?
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04-11-2002, 12:42 AM | #2 |
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Eowyn. Arwen seems more like the typical princessy woman, "Oh Aragorn, I'll be happy to sit here in Rivendell and sew your standard. Go off to war like a good boy." Eowyn's character has more depth.
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04-11-2002, 05:48 AM | #3 |
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Damn, I wish there were more female characters to choose from .... Oh well, if I have to choose between those two, I guess it would be Eowyn... Now where's a stick, so I can beat myself senseless?
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04-11-2002, 07:15 AM | #4 |
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Eowyn, she has a little bit of everything. Drama, romance, tragedy...she even dies at one point!
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04-11-2002, 09:16 AM | #5 |
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Eowyn. Without a dout. Arwen is cool, yea, but I really like basket cases better, they are so much more interesting!
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04-11-2002, 12:25 PM | #6 |
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Eowyn. Though I don't like the wayshe falls in love with Faramir so quickly, she seems a girl power kinda girl which though i am not a big fan of that its better than Arwen, who like Duro said, seems to be more of a Dinner'll be on the table when you get home from Helm's Deepd kinda elf.
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04-11-2002, 02:44 PM | #8 |
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Eowyn. No questions asked. Just look at my name for example. I think it was the killing of the Nazgul King that clinches it for me.And the rebellious side of her. She wasn't just going to sit around waiting for news of the wars to come back, she was willing to get out there and do something about it.Go Eowyn!
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04-11-2002, 02:45 PM | #9 |
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I like Arwen more then Eowyn. I guess it's becouse she's elf... but I still like her more then Eowyn.
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04-11-2002, 04:10 PM | #10 |
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Eowyn. no questions asked. dont like Arwen.
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04-11-2002, 05:32 PM | #12 |
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Eowyn. Arwen didn't do much, and I like Eowyn's sense of action. I mean, she took down the head Nazgûl for heaven's sakes. And Arwen sewed a banner. Definitely Eowyn.
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04-11-2002, 05:49 PM | #13 |
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I like Eowyn. I would let her travel in my company in disguise if necesary.
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04-11-2002, 09:37 PM | #14 |
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Eowyn. Heh . . . I get the feeling Eowyn is winning.
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04-11-2002, 09:37 PM | #15 |
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It would be Arwen, because she's an elf, and I love the pairing of Aragorn and Arwen. But Eowyn has so much more depth to her character, and I like what happens to her, especially as Dernhelm. Of all the female characters, my favorite's actually Galadriel.
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04-11-2002, 10:44 PM | #16 |
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Well ordinarily I would say Eowyn for all the reasons everyone else has said, but I'm going to say Arwen just to play devil's advocate. And puting aside all anti-livingas sentiment for the movie Arwen, she's ok. The difference between the two is kind of mental vs. physical, Eowyn is a more physical, fighting, butt-kicking type of person (THAT's an understatement ) and Arwen helps out on a more spiritual, intellectual, elvish plane. You have to remember that she was not raised, like Eowyn, as a shieldmaiden, and her help was rather is stengthening the will of Aragorn; adding her stength to his and giving him something, hm, more tangable, to work towards. Also, she had to have been pretty strong on an emotional level to give up her imortality.
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04-11-2002, 11:21 PM | #17 |
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Eowyn. She's closer to my age group (double digits). Heheh.
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04-12-2002, 12:34 AM | #18 |
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Okay, person who started this thread. Eowyn. Though some very good arguments have been fought in Arwen's favor so far... I tell you, my friend Ivan would really like this!
Eowyn just has so much more character than Arwen.
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04-12-2002, 02:56 AM | #19 |
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I love them both in different ways.
Arwens so beautiful and pure and delicate and ELVISH, but Eowyn is so strong and brave and independent. But I think the thing that makes me choose Eowyn overall is because she's like Eponine - both love someone who loves another and would do anything for them, both put on an outward show of being strong (although I'm sure that Eowyn, like Ponine, is very delicate, lonely and easily hurt on the inside), both are extremely brave, and both would willingly die for the person they love unrequitedly, or out of despair because that love is unreturned. Except Eponine would never love anyone other than Marius. (Incase you didn't notice, I'm obsessed with Ponine & les Mis as much as i am with LotR)
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04-12-2002, 04:00 AM | #20 |
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Not an easy choice. Although I would more likely choose Eowyn, I think I don't know enough about Arwen to justify that choice. And I refuse to choose with the movie as reference. I only wish Tolkien had written more about Arwen.
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