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@arwenindomiel‘s tolkien south asian week day 4 | men + portraits | eowyn

Allyourwordsarebuttosay:youareawoman,andyourpartisinthehouse.Butwhenthemenhavediedinbattleandhonour,youhaveleavetobeburnedinthehouse,forthemenwillneeditnomore.ButIamoftheHouseofEorlandnotaserving-woman.Icanrideandwieldblade,andIdonotfeareitherpainordeath.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

[ID: A set of four graphics for Eowyn. The main colour is orange.

1: A woman wearing an orange gown (an Anarkali). She has light brown skin and dark brown hair and is put in front of a pale orange background. Behind her are three frames, two containing separate images (an old pakistani painting of a woman in a white dress, the other a photograph of men riding holding spears), the third framing the woman’s head. The image also contains text reading “Eowyn” in capital letters as well as “Lady of Rohan, fair and cold like a morning in spring” and “ a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel “, both being LotR quotes describing Eowyn

2: Horses on a grassy plain. There’s text reading “ As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in her eyes. […] but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings” This is another LotR quote

3: A woman gazing through an intricately carved window. This image too contains a quote, reading “Alone Eowyn stood before the doors of the house at the stair’s head; the sword was set upright before her, and her hands were laid upon the hilt. She was clad now in mail and shone like silver in the sun

4: The last graphic has the same layout as image 1. This time, the woman in the Anarkali stands with her back turned, and the images in the two frames show an oriel in a white stone building, and a pakistani traditional painting of a man on a horse, holding a spear. The text on this graphic reads “Eowyn” again, “A lady high and valiant, and has herself won renown”, and “who knows what she spoke in the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking”

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