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- From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
- Subject: Re: Eowyn (was Re: Elf-human pairings)
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- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 10:17:03 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec11.155406.7750@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Dec11.194139.4332@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1gkl34INNhv@mirror.digex.com>
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- In <1gkl34INNhv@mirror.digex.com> dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
-
- >In any event, after the War of the Ring there was not much need for
- >battling women. In fact, there was not much need for battling men
- >either. Thus all of the major characters settled into peaceful roles
- >of one sort or another. It was no more a cop-out for Eowyn to become
- >Faramir's wife then it was for Faramir to settle down as Prince of Ithillian.
-
- "For though Sauron had passed, the hatreds and evils that he bred had
- not died, and the King of the West had many enemies to subdue before
- the White Tree could grow in peace. And wherever King Elassar went
- with war King Eomer went with him; and beyond the Sea of Rhun and on
- the far fields of the South the thunder of the cavalry of the mark was
- heard, and the White Hourse upon Green flew in many winds until Eomer
- grew old." III, 438
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