Also interesting with Eowyn is that, in general, Tolkein tended to shortchange female characters a lot. There generally weren't many very active women in the books, and next to none that actually fought, but here he takes the old folk-songish element of a woman disguised as a man to go off to war (monstrous regiment comes to mind) and instead of her getting in over her head and needing to be rescued, she successfully faces down and defeats one of the most powerful entities in middle earth
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