#eowyn

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#lord-of-the-rings #change

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#eowyn #fantasy #healing #return-of-the-king #courage

My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#eomer #eowyn #gandalf #girl-power #courage

But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?" (Aragorn about Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing) ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#eowyn #life

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#rotk #men

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fantasy #lord-of-the-rings #Éowyn #love