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“Your duty is with your people,’ he answered.
“Too often have I heard of duty,” she cried. “But am I not of the house of Eorl, a shield-maiden and not a dry-nurse? I have waited on faltering feet long enough. Since they falter no longer, it seems, may I not now spend my life as I will?”
“Few may do that with honour,” he answered. “But as for you, lady: did you not accept the charge to govern the people until their lord’s return. If you had not been chosen, then some marshal or captain would have been set in the same place, and he could not ride away from his charge, were he weary of it or no.”
“Shall I always be chosen,” she said bitterly. “Shall I always be left behind when the Riders depart, to mind the house while they win renown, and find food and beds when they return?”

PARTS OF THE BOOK THAT WEREN’T IN THE MOVIE

lotr meme - eight scenes (5/8) ↬ I am no man.

“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund’s daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless!”

LotR Meme » 1/6 Friendships/OTPs » Éowyn/Théoden
↳ I know your face. Éowyn.

this is a post about Éowyn’s hair

For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. 

What other duty would you have me do, my lord?

andrewserkis:

Fan Challenge: Three of Seven Heartbreaking Scenes

I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed.

lotr meme - nine characters (5/9) ↬ Éowyn, the Shieldmaiden of Rohan

“ What do you fear, my lady?”  “A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.”

Happy international women’s day!