But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman.” 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. All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. “ But am I not of the House of Eorl, a shieldmaiden and not a dry-nurse?. It is worth noting that the term “shieldmaiden” itself is only found four times in the entirety of JRR Tolkien's works relating to Middle-earth, and always by Éowyn to refer to herself: The Return of the King, Book 6, Chapter IV Because he was high and puissant, and you wished to have renown and glory and to be lifted far above the mean things that crawl on the earth.” “ You desired to have the love of the Lord Aragorn. ’” The Return of the King, Book 5, Chapter VIII 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.
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“ ‘My friend ,’ said Gandalf, ‘you had horses, and deeds of arms, and the free fields but, born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. And so she did in the battle of the Pelennor Fields, although then, as noted by Gandalf and Faramir, she was motivated by glory and her wish to escape her bleak life:
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This makes clear the fact that Tolkien did not view Éowyn as a warrior but rather as a woman of great courage, who, knowing how to wield a sword effectively, could do so resolutely when need arose. “ was also not really a soldier or ‘amazon’, but like many brave women was capable of great military gallantry at a crisis.” In one of his letters, written around 1963 in answer to a reader’s comment, the Professor explains: This idea was ultimately rejected, however. The History of Middle-earth: The Treason of Isengard, Chapter XXVI Indeed, in one of his earlier drafts of The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien intended that Éowyn be a warrior-woman: “ A swift stroke she dealt, skilled and deadly.” The Return of the King, Book 5, Chapter VI ” The Return of the King, Book 5, Chapter II That the White Lady of Rohan had received formal training in the use of a sword is seen from passages in The Return of the King: Intriguing as the notion is, only a careful study of the Professor’s writings can confirm or deny it. a shieldmaiden of Rohan”, and the words may well lead fans to believe that warrior-women were common in Rohirric society. In Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn once says to Éowyn, “Y ou are. In JRR Tolkien’s works, Éowyn names herself a shieldmaiden. Sela, “a skilled warrior and experienced in roving” Rusla, “whose prowess in warfare exceeded the spirit of a woman” and Stikla, who “ the occupations of war to those of wedlock”, are also mentioned in passing in The Danish History. began the life of a warlike rover”, in Saxo Grammaticus’s The Danish History. There are Brynhild in the V ö lsunga Saga, who “fared with helm and byrny unto the wars” Hervör in The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek, who “spent a long time in piracy and had great success” Lathgertha, “a skilled amazon, who, though a maiden, had the courage of a man, and fought in front among the bravest”, and Alfhild, who “exchanged woman's for man's attire, and. In Scandinavian folklore and mythology a shieldmaiden was “a woman who had chosen to fight as a warrior” (cf.
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