the fact that we only know the year faramir died and not when eowyn did haunts me man. im haunted! who died first do you think. which one of them was left behind to mourn yet another loved one. faramir has more dunedain heritage, implying he will probably live longer but hes also already older than eowyn so it might have cancelled out. i need them to have simultaneous heart attacks for my own good.
Faramir lived to 120 and Eomer lived to his 90s. There's a 12 year age gap between Faramir and Eowyn, so for them to die in the same year, Eowyn would have needed to live to 108.
I doubt Eowyn lived as long as that, but considering Eomer's longevity (both of them had Numenorean blood from their grandmother, who Eowyn in particular took after) and the fact that women tend to live longer than men, I imagine Eowyn died in her mid to late nineties. It's not impossible she even lived to see a hundred. Faramir almost definitely outlived her, but hopefully only for a few years.
#this is making me all kinds of unwell #eowyn was for once not the one having to stay behind. she was the one getting cared for by people that love her.
Definitely think this was to her preference. I think she was always glad that between Faramir being twelve years her older, and her having some Numenorean blood, they'd be able to live their lives together, while also ensuring that Faramir would in all probability to outlive her, sparing her having to be left behind by him (and having to care for him and watch him decline as she had watched her uncle do).
If we're doing headcanons, I imagine that in her final days, when she was bedbound, she had a lot of dreams of Rohan, and her youth, and of herself and Eomer and even Theodred, that she smelt the plains and the horses, and that before she died she heard Eomer and Theodred and Theodwyn and Eomund and Theoden calling her.
beloved mutual you cant be doing this to me. her being called home by everyone shes lost...smelling the plains oh man
