

However, the lack ofĪny acknowledgement of sexual feelings occurring in Middle Earth force Faramir Not an aspect of life with which they need be concerned. Not mentioned because, for the characters we follow at any rate, it is simply its being called “you-know-what,” or with fictions suchĪs the infamous stork to explain the presence of babies). Neither something that is mentioned nor something that is not mentioned in a

Sex is not present in Middle Earth as it is in our world, This is an aspect entirely glossed over in most of theĭescriptions of romantic love in The Lord Or Gamling or of any other member of the Rohirrim toward this newcomer-sheer Glory, but there seems to be more to her feelings than those of Eomer or of Háma Nobility and courage are attractive to Éowyn as a shieldmaiden who wishes for Toward him are more complicated than merely idolatry, I would posit. Love of a soldier for his-or, in this case, her-captain. Faramir classifies the love that Éowyn feels for Aragorn as the Seeking death after being rejected by Aragorn, with whose nobility she hasįallen in love.

Is not this act alone which classifies her as heroic. Lord of the Rings to the dragon that was Beowulf’s final opponent, but it Warrior to a gardener throughout the course of her journey, and it is in this Éowyn, similarly, transforms from solely a
