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 "Obdurate" is a good word. I have not used it before.

Book quotes are so great- you can't get better than this:

King Eomer stood up and said, “Now this is the funeral feast of Theoden the King; but I will speak ere we go of tidings and 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 full willing. Therefore they shall be trothplighted before you all.”***

and then what was said.... and Tolkien didn't write more of this... I GUESS I WILL HAVE TO FILL IT. :P with pleasure

... drawing near end of my fic...
but there are still things to resolve. I promise you.