Eowyn: was Golden Compass

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> 
> Kemper now:
> Why did she go to the battle at Minas Terith (sp?
> I think it was because she was love stricken but Aragon was, like,
> "you don't really do it for me, you just like me cause I'm hot" and
> Eowyn was, like, "I'm going to dress up like a man a die in battle and
> show you!"
> I, of course, could be totally wrong in my interpretation.  But I did
> not get the feeling she wanted to battle for Rohan.
> 
> Again, my interpretation.  And I know it's skewed by what an
> unbearable read I felt it was.
> 
> Kemper
>

So here's the canon.

Faramir says

"That I know", he said "You desired to have the love of the Lord 
Aragorn. Because he was high and puissant and you wished to have renown 
and glory and to be lifted far above the mean things that crawl on the 
earth. And as a great captain may to a young soldier he seemed to be 
admirable. For so he is, a lord among men, the greatest that now is. 
But when he gave you only understanding and pity, then you desired to 
have nothing, unless a brave death in battle..."

Remember that Eowyn was forced to see her uncle dominated by Wormtongue 
who tormented her. 

Like many men rejected by women, they think that perhaps a brave death 
is all that is left to them.

I think I'm having a problem with people assuming that the only reason 
a woman would become a warrior is related to a man.

Susan