Because I generally like movie-Aragorn, though he has his faults, and I don’t agree with you. I guess the phrase is OK.
There was an ancient elf-rune that said: Once you’ve had elvish, you’ll never go back.
Given that ancient wisdom and bumper sticker on a hobbit cart that said: Horse girls like it in the saddle…I think I’d go with horse girl first, then when the horned hat and all got old, ditch her for miss pointy ears.
Galadriel is the coolest of the three. Though as long as we’re talking about cool, a write-in vote for Luthien Tinuviel, who kicked total butt.
Eowyn is my favorite, because she got the best scene, though I always thought it was a little weird that she decided to be a gardener in the end.
Arwen, though, is the one I’d most like to be if I had to be a LotR character. I mean, seriously. While Eowyn was busy evacuating people and fighting the Witch-King and so on, and presumably Galadriel was doing some sort of painful mental gymnastics holding Sauron at bay, Arwen was sitting back. And embroidering a flag with jewels. That’s it, that’s all she does during the whole freaking war! For this awesome contribution she gets to reign in great glory and splendour with her husband for hundreds of years. That’s the kind of story I’d like to star in, thanks! None of this grubbing about in the mud for me.
It’s good to be the Queen.
Ooh, and did she unpick the embroidery every night like what’s her face in the Greek tale? 
I’m a girl (no, really!), so this is an odd question for me to answer, but if I could BE a character, I’d be Eowyn, but in my version, Faramir is killed, and Arwen goes to the Gray Havens, leaving Aragorn mine, ALL mine, baby!
I think it’d be a great improvement on the current story line. 
I was just sort of taking it for granted that she’s everyone’s first choice. No point waxing on about what everyone already knows.
Meh. Luthien chose mortality. She dies. Bad scene.
I’d go with Varda. How can you beat the star-kindler?? :eek: 
Well, if the freaky trip out scene at the pool is any indication of what climax will be, I think I have to go with Galadriel. Galadriel was definitely hot in the movie. Eowyn would be good too. Gotta love a girl that can slay the witchking. I just might have to pass on Arwen. She’s way too much of a daddies girl.
I wouldn’t put it past her. That would explain how she got out of having to do anything in the chore line. (“Arwen honey, Aragorn just called and he needs reinforcements brought–” “Can’t, Daddy, I’m busy! I’m only on Gem 3!” “I thought you finished that last night?” “Well, you can see for yourself, it’s only half sewn through!”)
Penelope is whom you refer to. And no, Arwen did no such thing. Elves work slowly and meticulously.
Well of course she did. It’s… unbecoming for a woman to want to go into combat or do other manly things. She only did so because of the Witch-King prophecy. Once the prophecy was fulfilled, she was free to go back to her proper pursuits - housekeeping, gardening, and the bearing of children.
Oh, balls.
She did not become a gardener. She married Faramir and became the mistress of Ithilien. She stopped being a warrior because the war was over.
Eowyn for keeps, because I’m partial to tomboys.
Arwen is second, but only for a weekend fling.
No to Galadriel. She’s too high maintenance.
In case it wasn’t clear - I was expressing what I interpreted as JRRT’s attitude, not my own. I definitely read it as her being a warrior was an aberration, and once she fell in love with Faramir, she could take up her true duty of being a wife. YMMV.
She didn’t do anything because of the prophecy. She probably hadn’t a clue there was a prophecy until the Witch-king himself spilled the beans, inadvertently encouraging her - but by that point the die was cast. The fact that something was foretold in vague terms doesn’t take anything away from her action.
Sure there’s a distinction between male and female roles in a story set in a pseudo-medieval milieu and written by someone whose own character was formed in the Edwardian era, but he obviously saw that women could make important and praiseworthy outside their traditional roles or else he wouldn’t have included those contributions in his story in the first place.
Got to go for Eowyn, myself. Bags of guts, bags of character, and gorgeous to boot. Galadriel’s initially scary, but once past that, you’re laughing. And who knows? Maybe you’ll be the second mortal allowed to follow the Straight Road?