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Plighting the Troth At least when the feast drew to an end Eomer arose and said: "Now this is the funeral feast of Theoden the King; but I will speak ere we go of tidings of joy, for he would not grudge that I should do so, since he was ever a father to Eowyn my sister. Hear then all my guests, fair folk of many realms, such as have never before been gathered in this hall! Faramir, Steward of Gondor and Prince of Ithilien, asks that Eowyn Lady of Rohan should be his wife, and she grants it ful willing. Therefore they shall be trothplighted before you all." And Faramir and Eowyn stood forth in hand and hand; and all there drank to them and were glad. "Thus," said Eomer, "is the friendship of the Mark and Gondor bound with a new bond, and the more do I rejoice."