LOTR meme: five races
Men [03/05]
It is in Men that we must place our hope.(✖)
‘No longer do I desire to be a queen’ she said. Then Faramir laughed merrily. ‘That is well,’ he said, ‘for I am not a king.
PERFECT.
And Faramir doesn’t even mind when she tracks Orc blood into the house.
What a good guy.
Eowyn as commentary on gender roles is actually very interesting. She comes from a culture that values prowess in arms and glory in battle above all else, and also restricts war, the thing that grants both, to men.
Her going into battle is a defiance of that restriction, and a cosmically ordained one at that. She, a woman, was destined to be there. Illuvatar had a direct hand in her life.
Her choice to turn from glory in battle and to seek glory as a healer, considered more feminine in this mythos, is a rejection of the patriarchal import her people place on glory through the male province of battle.
What Eowyn Shieldmaiden of Rohan fears most is a cage, and she smashes that cage to bits.
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More than anything I wish I could see them again.
and what of my wrath?
And he looked at the slain, recalling their names. Then suddenly he beheld his sister Éowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart.
