#not my deepest post but ... the thing about f/é is that even though you don't have much reason to see it coming

[anghraine]

So I understand why Eowyn would fall in love with Faramir, but what would he see in her?

This has been in my inbox so long that I actually forgot that I hadn't already answered it, but I think it's because I found it so puzzling.

Éowyn is daring, courageous, beautiful, intense, resolute, and fiercely loyal. Despite a certain coldness that she's had to develop, she has a great deal of vitality, nerve, and energy (where Faramir, though young for a Dúnadan, is bound up in the legacy of the last several thousand years of his people's history, is literally haunted by it, and represents a time and a phase of their being that is largely over). Her choices are not necessarily ones Faramir would make or advise, but they are driven by qualities he finds appealing.

And they have a lot of parallels and commonalities as well, so while they are attracted in part by difference, there are other ways in which they're very much a birds-of-a-feather couple. There are the obvious parallels in their situations, but they're also like ... Faramir faces down the One Ring itself, rejects it after a moment's temptation, then laughs. Éowyn faces down the Witch-King of Angmar and when he threatens her, she laughs. Even though their romance is very sudden and develops very rapidly, it makes a lot of intuitive sense to me that these are people who would find each other cool and lovable.

#not my deepest post but ... the thing about f/é is that even though you don't have much reason to see it coming #something about it really clicks #i'm not uncritical of it by any means but it does make a fundamental sense to me #that they'd find each other's personalities deeply attractive #so it's a little difficult to articulate what faramir sees her in because *gesticulates* HER. he sees her. #anon replies #respuestas #legendarium blogging #otp: and the sun shone #faramir #éowyn