Gratuitous Tuesday Meme For Tuesday

[caitri]

Stolen from the magnificent rubynye!

Give me a fandom and I will tell you my:

Favorite Person
Least Favorite Person
Prettiest Person
Most Beautiful Person
Person I Want to Marry
Person with Whom I Want to Be Best Friends
Favorite Pairing
Unpopular Opinion

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I am plot-blocked on two fics whereas cheerful fluff is cheerful and coming along swell. This is problematic since classes start next week. Speaking of which I already have homework for next week, but it's for my Early Modern Drama class which I am super looking forward to because I couldn't be nerdier if I tried. So.

Comments

[caitri.livejournal.com]

Yeah there's a couple of earlier drafts where Aragorn ends up marrying Eowyn and living happily ever after, and then there's one where she dies on the battlefield so he never marries anyone cos he's all brokenhearted.

[amine-eyes.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, now that is interesting. I mean, I never really saw Aragorn and Eowyn as right for each other (more BFFs than anything), so it's interesting to see how the character development of them both changed in the drafts :)

[caitri.livejournal.com]

See I don't think they'd ever be BFFs: if anything, that would be Merry for her. I think there's too much hero worship and even when she realizes (if she ever does) Aragorn is really a mortal man it would still be tinged with "He's the King!" super-loyalty etc.

I also thought that the possibility of an Aragorn/Eowyn relationship would have been more interesting in developing Aragorn as a character, because he's such a young man when he falls for Arwen and there's all this mythic stuff in his mind about perfect love and Beren and Luthien (and I think some of that is true for her as well) that I don't think that "real life" would have really suited them all that well. Whereas Eowyn has spent pretty much all her life running a keep and everything, she would have been a true partner to him.