Tragic and Doomed

[deird_lj]

I think I've finally figured out why I don't like Aragorn and Arwen ending up together:

They're Buffy and Angel.


Seriously!

They're a couple who meet as teenagers well, when one of them is a teenager and the other one is already really old but immortal and seemingly young, and who promptly fall into an epic love story even though they're two completely different species, and get to stand around looking all tragic and doomed and heartbroken because they will forever be parted...

...and then they get married and live happily ever after.


Is it me, or is that sort of missing the point?


Buffy/Angel? Love it. Mostly. But the whole big idea behind their relationship is that it's tragic and doomed and heartbreaking, and they'll never end up together, and it's so beautiful and doomed and... doomed...


Aragorn and Arwen have a clear purpose - to be the Buffy-and-Angel, and look longingly into each other's eyes for a while before they go off and live their respective lives. That's how it's supposed to work! Having them end up together just doesn't fit.


(Which is all a long drawn-out way of saying: Aragorn/Eowyn 4eva! Woo!)

Comments

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Except Beren/Luthen was seriously awesome, with Luthien being a much more take-charge kinda lady.

When Tolkien's wife Edith died, he had 'Lúthien' carved on her gravestone under her own name. (And his own gravestone now has 'Beren' on it to match.) Considering that he's often criticised for not having many active women in his stories, I thought it was neat that he made the one based on his own wife the most awesome, ass-kicking and charge-taking person in all of Middle Earth. I mean, she defeated Sauron one-on-one
(well, with the help of her dog) and stood up to Morgoth himself...

[elisi]

I thought it was neat that he made the one based on his own wife the most awesome, ass-kicking and charge-taking person in all of Middle Earth.
Absolutely! They really ought to make a film of Beren and Luthien, although it'd be 90% CGI. Still, incredible love-story w. incredible heroine! (Must say that calling Huan 'a dog' is a little like calling a T-Rex a 'lizard'... *g*)