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Eowyn and Faramir // LOTR: Return of the King
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One of my absolute favorite lines of Éowyn’s is one that is so simple yet so meaningful.
“I desired to be loved by another. But I desire no man’s pity.”
Note the past tense in the first sentence. She’s telling Faramir that she doesn’t love Aragorn anymore, that she’s over him. She’s intentionally opening the door for him to admit what she already suspects are his true feelings for her.
Yet she still stands her ground. She doesn’t want to be seen as pathetic. She knows her feelings and thoughts are valid, and will not be told otherwise.
In few words, she is saying to Faramir that she is indeed opening her heart to him, but won’t hesitate to reject him if he will look down on her for all her suffering and struggles. She loves him, but has enough self-respect to turn away if he proves to not be good to her.
And Faramir, of course, passes her test with flying colors.
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torchwood-99 · 11 hours
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I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground
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Like her father, Prince Daemon Targaryen, Baela was wild, willing, and fearless
Baela and Moondancer both making their roaring shouty faces in the house of the dragon season two teaser and trailer
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Horror movies of 2014
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i was with my mother’s family and they were talking to me about my religious studies major. my great aunt asked me what the definition of hell was, and i responded “well i suppose it depends on who you ask.” and nearly all the protestants in the group decided that hell was “the absence of god” which i suppose is a fair answer, albeit not a universal one. my cousin’s wife was playing with her 3-year-old daughter and she says “well mommy says that hell is a mcdonald’s playplace” asdfghjhgfd
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torchwood-99 · 13 hours
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yeah right
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torchwood-99 · 13 hours
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"genre-savvy" no i want a genre-unsavvy protagonist. scratch that, i want a genre-deluded protagonist.
i want a protagonist who is convinced until the last possible moment that they're in a lighthearted romcom--despite the proliferation of slasher murders. give me a soccer dad who is just so determined to enjoy family vacation, despite the fact the kids summoned an eldritch deity from the lake. a preteen who is experiencing a coming-of-age saga and annoyed their parents aren't emotionally present (the parents are distracted by a literal zombie apocalypse). endless possibilities
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Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.
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I just realized my wife left me because of my obsession with simplifying fractions. 
Oh well. Hindsight is 1.
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Okay so, got here from a book on animal behavior but: Vulcan stand-up comedy as a competitive activity.
Because most Vulcans don't actually pretend they don't have emotions, it's all about self-regulation, right? And good comedy usually hinges on manipulating the relationship between our faculties of recognition and surprise in various ways, you can get pretty scientific with it.
So Vulcans go to the comedy act, and the idea is the comedian is trying to make you crack up, and the audience is trying to not even crack a smile, and if you do laugh, you lose. Like all in good fun, but Vulcans are both really competitive and really aware of how dangerous that urge can be to a society, so this could actually be classified as highly orthodox Surakian practice.
So of course the comedian has to actually be funny, or there's no challenge and the game is boring.
Which means the really good Vulcan comedians (most of whom tend to extremely dry delivery of their bits) are going to go around playing to packed houses, which mostly sit staring stonily back at them, with occasional breaks when someone loses it and reacts.
And after a show you'll have Vulcans walking out discussing with great approval how very humorous that was, with varying degrees of muted smugness or chagrin depending on if they won or lost.
I bet there are human comedians whose grandest fantasy is being good enough to do a set in Vulcana Regatta and have people going around bragging about not laughing at them.
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1928 c. Chanel silk chiffon evening dress with silk net, sequins and glass beads, worn by stage and screen actress Ina Claire. From Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
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Aragorn and Eowyn reunite, and Aragorn finally finds out what a "healed" Eowyn looks like.
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*biting gnawing etc* I love Eowyn so much and this scene - these lines - have always given me so many emotions.
She'll take death! She'll take pain! She at this point probably expects death either way, it's just a question of whether that comes in battle or staying here when they come for her after the battle is lost (because what hope does she have at this point that they can win, when was the last time she had hope - maybe for a while when Aragorn was here, but he’s leaving again for a path that you just don't come out of alive) so seeing as she's going to die at least she can die trying. At least maybe they'll make a song for her, if there's anyone left to make songs.
And yeah - staying behind to govern the people is a worthy deed in itself, but - just before this she says 'shall I always be chosen?' Because it is always her who stays behind. Eowyn is brave, Eowyn is noble, Eowyn is loved by the people but she always has to stay behind.
(It’s her duty, it's an honour. That doesn't make it any less a cage, and I think Eowyn has been caged for a long time now. Theoden is sunk in his own despair and Wormtongue is following her around and then the Fellowship come and for a moment it seems like the bars are opening - and then they snap right back into place. And isn't that almost worse, to have a moment of freedom before you're shoved back into prison)
And it's - until use and old age accept them, she says. Because she knows she could grow to accept them, after long enough, and that's the worst thing of all. Then it's just... apathy. Then she will live out her life, quietly, behind bars, and no one will remember Eowyn of Rohan, afterwards.
(Aragorn isn't wrong, with what he says to her. But neither is Eowyn).
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TOLKIEN LADIES: Éowyn
“The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in here eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.”
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