Oh, and what is with the Eowyn and Faramir-bashing by certain people?
*looks around* Um, well.
Eowyn... I don't know what happened between me and her. *grin* It started out so well...
Seriously? I loved her the first time I read the books. But on subsequent readings, I just... dunno. I just find that every time I close the books, I like her less and less, for reasons I can't even put my finger on often. Just a vague sense of irritation. Except for the part where she kills the Witch-King, because the absolute intensity of that moment... I'm not made of stone.
Yes, Arwen in the books is boring, but she's barely there, so I can't really get annoyed with her, and I can come up with my own reasons for why she and Aragorn work. I sometimes wish PJ&Co. had stuck with the drafted version of TTT, wherein Arwen takes Anduril to Aragorn before Helm's Deep and is there with him. And it's entirely possible that a lot of my liking her is tied up with the films, because she is pretty and I want to kiss her and I am shallow, but there you have it.
Faramir... I don't know. I was neutral towards him the first time I read the books, and he just irritates me more and more every time on subsequent readings. It's the whole thing with the Ring, I think -- cruisedirector put it better than I did, about how she has no use for a hero who's perfect and cannot be tempted. I couldn't connect with him at all. Maybe a lot of it comes from the fact that I'm an oldest sibling, so I don't know what it's like to live in someone else's shadow (although of course that was a pretty extreme case of favoritism *grin*), too -- between that and the fact that I don't buy his temptation or lack thereof by the One Ring, I couldn't connect to him, so I got bored with him pretty quickly. I didn't get why everyone hated Boromir so much in the books, and I didn't get what the big hoo-ha over Faramir was. Even though I didn't really care much for the characters, though, I always enjoyed the story about how they fell in love, exactly for the way you described it.
Um, yes. Since this is a long-ass comment already, I will spare my "word" to your comments about the holiday going back to its non-Christian roots.
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Date: 2003-12-17 03:01 pm (UTC)*looks around* Um, well.
Eowyn... I don't know what happened between me and her. *grin* It started out so well...
Seriously? I loved her the first time I read the books. But on subsequent readings, I just... dunno. I just find that every time I close the books, I like her less and less, for reasons I can't even put my finger on often. Just a vague sense of irritation. Except for the part where she kills the Witch-King, because the absolute intensity of that moment... I'm not made of stone.
Yes, Arwen in the books is boring, but she's barely there, so I can't really get annoyed with her, and I can come up with my own reasons for why she and Aragorn work. I sometimes wish PJ&Co. had stuck with the drafted version of TTT, wherein Arwen takes Anduril to Aragorn before Helm's Deep and is there with him. And it's entirely possible that a lot of my liking her is tied up with the films, because she is pretty and I want to kiss her and I am shallow, but there you have it.
Faramir... I don't know. I was neutral towards him the first time I read the books, and he just irritates me more and more every time on subsequent readings. It's the whole thing with the Ring, I think --
Um, yes. Since this is a long-ass comment already, I will spare my "word" to your comments about the holiday going back to its non-Christian roots.