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torchwood-99 · 1 year ago

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And this is even when Gandalf literally spells out that one of the reasons she's depressed is because she'd been forced into a feminine role that didn't suit her.

Sometimes I still think about that "Eowyn is only depressed because she rejects femininity. That's why she's happier when she becomes a healer and Faramir's pretty little housewife." post and I just want to throw up.

Tell me you didn't understand her character and Tolkien's whole message without telling me, I guess. Also why are we still at war = masculine and healing = feminine???

#choosing peace and healing isn't choosing feminine over masculine the main healers we meet in the series are blokes #and peace is a way of life for the hobbits of both sex #the life she goes onto lead isn't because she's a woman or despite being a woman it's because she doesn't wish to die #but still wants to be active and useful and put her phyiscal and mental skills to good use #plus she's not becoming a tradwife she's basically going to medical school #it will still be hard phyiscal work that will often get bloody and stressful and will require a great deal of effort #come on this is stern fierce Eowyn #she won't just be mopping brows she'll be sewing flesh back together and setting bones and doing so under great pressure #she'll be swearing like a sailor and going drinking with her colleagues at the end of the day to blow off steam #she's basically swapped one battlefield for another just this new one is to save lives instead of end them #also she becomes a living legend remembered forever as Maiden of the Shield Arm and this is treated an indisputably good thing #if she didn't defy gender roles (taking Merry with her too) they wouldn't have killed the Witch King and things could have gone badly #and ok I'm straying into headcanon but if war comes near her home she'll be on the front lines carrying stretchers #going into the battle to tend to the wounded with a sword on her hip #and you can take that headcanon from my cold dead hands #and even then King Elessar will revive me and I'll take it back

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