windandwater: Eowyn thoughts to spare the multiple reblogs of that post! From nothing2c: What’s…
Eowyn thoughts to spare the multiple reblogs of that post!
From nothing2c:
What’s incredibly interesting to me is that Eowyn’s warrior streak is portrayed by Tolkien as the result of abuse in her upbringing. Eowyn grows up trapped in a house with a fading, bespelled uncle and the lecherous bastard Wormtongue (“her bower a hutch to trammel some wild thing” is Gandalf’s famous phrase), and yearns for Eomer’s freedom to go out and fight. Her nature, Tolkien posits, is not war-loving even though she is a “shield maiden” of Rohan. He reveals it when she is healed of her emotional wounds by Faramir. Once Eowyn is healed by Faramir’s love and acceptance, she realizes that freedom does not come through feats of arms, and she chooses to become a healer instead of a fighter.
This character arc is incredibly deep! Eowyn’s feminism lies in the freedom of her actions. Out of her own free will, she chooses to heal instead of fight, even though Faramir would have given her up to fight beside Aragorn.
This is interesting to me as well!
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