J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is a saga rich with character growth, and few arcs are as transformative and inspiring as that of the White Lady of Rohan. Éowyn (Miranda Otto), is first ...

Tolkien writes, "Faramir, Steward of Gondor, and Prince of Ithilien, asks that Éoywn Lady of Rohan should be his wife . . . And Faramir and Éowyn stood forth and set hand in hand; and all there ...

Historian Tom Holland chooses the daughter of Alfred the Great, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians ... and who also might have inspired Eowyn in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.