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I love this post on Eowyn. I've been an Eowyn fangirl since I was about 10, and Recessional sums up everything I love about her and how it's not a bloody cop-out to have her go to the Houses of Healing and give up the sword.
She stood between her beloved uncle and King and the King of the Nazgul, faced down what was sure to be her death, and laughed in its face. She was driven mad by the glass cage society put her in, where heroic deeds bring honor, yet only men perform heroic deeds and gain honor.
Only Eowyn, a woman driven so mad by despair's conflict with honor that nothing worse could be done to her than already had been and ready to die, could slay the Witch-King. She had nothing more to lose but her life.
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."
(Since I have no Eowyn icons, have Katara instead.)
She stood between her beloved uncle and King and the King of the Nazgul, faced down what was sure to be her death, and laughed in its face. She was driven mad by the glass cage society put her in, where heroic deeds bring honor, yet only men perform heroic deeds and gain honor.
Only Eowyn, a woman driven so mad by despair's conflict with honor that nothing worse could be done to her than already had been and ready to die, could slay the Witch-King. She had nothing more to lose but her life.
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."
(Since I have no Eowyn icons, have Katara instead.)
