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- Title: Eowyn's Grief (Critical Essay)
- Author : Mythlore
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 188 KB
Description
EOWYN, DAUGHTER OF EOMUND AND THEODWYN and niece to King Theoden, is one of the most enigmatic characters created by J.R.R. Tolkien in his epic story The Lord of the Rings. Is she a role model for feminists, or merely a pitiful, flat character (easily described in one sentence), or is she a woefully misunderstood young woman who merely wishes to die in battle? Surely there is more to her than the story of a niece left behind when the men folk ride off to glorious war, a twenty-four year old women with a crush on one of the heroes of the book? I propose in this paper that Eowyn's story of grief and recovery is a portrait of many soldiers' family members who remained in England during World War I, often close enough to hear the bombardment of artillery across the Channel, who struggled to recover from their losses, often without any resources in their communities. Tolkien also uses Faramir to show a possible path to recovery from traumatic grief. If it weren't for the compassionate presence of Faramir, a fellow patient who also suffered the loss of his entire family in the War of the Ring, she would not have recovered from her grief and would have died of despair.