Miranda Otto: Eowyn
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Aragorn : You have some skill with a blade.
Eowyn : The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them. I fear neither death nor pain.
Aragorn : What do you fear, my lady?
Eowyn : A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.
Aragorn : You are a daughter of kings, a shield maiden of Rohan. I do not think that will be your fate.
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Eowyn : Leave me alone, snake!
Wormtongue : Oh, but you are alone. Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in? So fair, yet so cold like a morning of pale Spring still clinging to Winter's chill.
Eowyn : Your words are poison!
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Eowyn : My Lord! Aragorn! I am to be sent with the women into the caves.
Aragorn : That is an honorable charge.
Eowyn : To mind the children, to find food and bedding when the men return. What renown is there in that?
Aragorn : My Lady, there may come a time for valor without renown. Who then will your people look to in the last defense?
Eowyn : Let me stand at your side.
Aragorn : It is not in my power to command it.
[pause; Aragorn turns to walk away from her]
Eowyn : You do not command the others to stay! They fight beside you because they would not be parted from you! Because they love you.
[Aragorn stops, and she realizes she has said too much]
Eowyn : I am sorry.
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Eowyn : My uncle told me a strange thing. He said that you rode to war with Thengel, my grandfather. But he must be mistaken.
Aragorn : King Theoden has a good memory. He was only a small child at the time.
Eowyn : Then you must be at least 60.
[Aragon gives a non-committal snicker]
Eowyn : 70? You cannot be 80!
Aragorn : 87.
Eowyn : [a little in awe] You are one of the Dunedain. A descendant of Numenor, blessed with long life. It was said that your race had passed into legend.
Aragorn : There are few of us left. The Northern Kingdom was destroyed long ago.
