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- From: stssram@st.unocal.COM (Bob Myers)
- Subject: Re: Eowyn, Destiny, and Settling Down Re: Eowyn
- In-Reply-To: krsear02@ulkyvx.louisville.edu's message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:05:44 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:17:08 GMT
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- >>>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:05:44 GMT, krsear02@ulkyvx.louisville.edu (Kendall 'Opusii' Sears) said:
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- Kendall> Do they not? Let's see. Frodo heads to the West with Bilbo,
- Kendall> Mithrandir, and the great majority of the Elves for
- Kendall> specifically THAT purpose. To settle down. This is not to
- Kendall> say that every one gets married and has lots of children. My
- Kendall> "settle down" above is not an implication of that. Settling
- Kendall> down is to lead a more leisurely life, which is what Bilbo
- Kendall> says to Mithrandir after the Party. Merry and Pippin do
- Kendall> indeed settle down, no longer are they warriors after the
- Kendall> cleansing of the Shire. Legolas and Gimli no longer spend
- Kendall> their time counting scores of Orc heads taken, nor do they
- Kendall> revel in the excitement of the hunt for Hobbits, they settle
- Kendall> into a life of travel. Both had spent a great part of their
- Kendall> (long) lives fighting one foe or another but when given the
- Kendall> chance after the war they decided to see the sights of Middle
- Kendall> Earth. Is that not settling down?
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- It seems to me that you'd say they all settled down no matter what they did after the war.
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- ("Gee, they're no longer fighting the War of the Ring. They must be settling down.")
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- What would it take to have a character *not* settle down after the War for you?
- Maybe Aragorn should have given up the throne and gone back to the woods.
- Maybe Legolas and Gimli should have spent the rest of their lives on a quest to
- exterminate the race of orcs. Maybe things were just a little bit quieter after the war.
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