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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 624212" data-attributes="member: 2020">I think there is hope that something big (read dramatic and entertaining) is going to happen with Aragorn because in both films now out there is repeated reference to Aragorn's inner strength.  In the book, Tolkien made a point of referring to that strength as the reason Aragorn could hold his people together, as they raced for Pelagir, and that strength enabled Aragorn to command the Dead (along with his being the heir of Isildur), and maybe perhaps that strength was required to even take the Paths of the Dead in the first place.  That strength came to it's full power when Aragorn came to the field of Gondor, and swept out Anduril, Narsil reforged as deadly as of old, and lead the onslaught against the Hosts of Mordor.  Or, at least, that is my impression.  Aragorn's inner strength, as it were, played a tremendous part in winning the Battle of Gondor.  Peter Jackson refers to Aragorn's strength in various ways in the films FOTR and TTT.  Perhaps Peter Jackson will run with this theme of Tolkien's, and make something really memorial out of it.  If Arwen does show up now, at Helm's Deep after the battle, with Narsil, I am guessing (shrugs) that she does go with him on the Paths of the Dead.  THAT will be a change to Tolkien's story, if true, but yes, it will certainly show Arwen's love for Aragorn!  The Paths of the Dead were no place for the faint of heart! (And, for what it is worth, I think Tolkien's (not Peter Jackson's) Elrond would kill Aragorn with his own hands rather than allow Aragorn to drag his daughter on such a dark Road.)  If Arwen shows up and goes with Aragorn, that rules out Eowyn going - and Eowyn did not go, in the books, despite wanting to quite a lot.    I would daresay that Aragorn was rather chavaunistic (and out of character) in his treatment of Eowyn on this matter, in the book, but if Arwen shows up now (in the film) enough justification exists right there, to the film audience, for Eowyn being denied the Paths of the Dead.</blockquote>

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