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burntcopperPosted this on the blog, but you need it in your lives as well....
Was thinking about the marriages of heads of state in medieval times, and how almost all of them were for political reasons, or stability - for example, Henry VII married Elizabeth once he'd taken the throne from Richard III to reinforce his claim on it - Elizabeth was at that time the closest thing to an heir that the Yorkists had considering her brothers, uncle and father were dead.
That in mind, my thoughts naturally turned to Boromir/Aragorn, and started thinking about what would happen if Boromir had never died and Aragorn had given Arwen the boot, or had to start considering the implications of his marriage re: relations with his subjects and the court.
And... Boromir made much more sense than Arwen, politically. here cometh reasons:
King Estel taking the steward of Gondor's son and heir as consort would ensure political stability as a sign of re-inforcing his bond with humans and the rulers of Gondor rather than being seen as someone whose loyalties lie almost entirely with the elves, a race most of the humans distrust to a certain extent due to their isolationist lifestyle. There's been rumours of the elves leaving these shores, or at least planning to. Allying yourself with a people who aren't going to be having that much influence on world affairs soon enough would be a rather short-sighted policy. Then you have the fact that Boromir is a known and respected quantity by a large proportion of the human world - unlike Arwen, who may feature in a few ballads, but otherwise has little contact with the human populace.
Who, me, think about this far too much?
Was thinking about the marriages of heads of state in medieval times, and how almost all of them were for political reasons, or stability - for example, Henry VII married Elizabeth once he'd taken the throne from Richard III to reinforce his claim on it - Elizabeth was at that time the closest thing to an heir that the Yorkists had considering her brothers, uncle and father were dead.
That in mind, my thoughts naturally turned to Boromir/Aragorn, and started thinking about what would happen if Boromir had never died and Aragorn had given Arwen the boot, or had to start considering the implications of his marriage re: relations with his subjects and the court.
And... Boromir made much more sense than Arwen, politically. here cometh reasons:
King Estel taking the steward of Gondor's son and heir as consort would ensure political stability as a sign of re-inforcing his bond with humans and the rulers of Gondor rather than being seen as someone whose loyalties lie almost entirely with the elves, a race most of the humans distrust to a certain extent due to their isolationist lifestyle. There's been rumours of the elves leaving these shores, or at least planning to. Allying yourself with a people who aren't going to be having that much influence on world affairs soon enough would be a rather short-sighted policy. Then you have the fact that Boromir is a known and respected quantity by a large proportion of the human world - unlike Arwen, who may feature in a few ballads, but otherwise has little contact with the human populace.
Who, me, think about this far too much?
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Date: 2002-06-10 04:58 pm (UTC)