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In Reply to: Meanwhile, back at Mount Doom... posted by clarkjohnsen on December 20, 2003 at 11:45:12:
Nice to see some criticism for a change: the film is overstated; and many of the lines are clunkers (and the songs made me sink in my chair). As for this statement, however:Neither is any of the many rallying cries in the film as eloquent as her defiant, "I am no man!" Jackson’s empowered females (two of the film’s scriptwriters are women) are a definite improvement on Tolkien’s sexism.
For a guy writing when war was exclusively the business of men (by and large, or course, it still is), I'd say the role Tolkien gave to Eowyn was pretty bold. Her success on the field is very much in line with the unlikely-heroes theme of the books: the enemy never gave the Shire the consideration it deserved; the witch king, who can't be hurt by men, is brought down by a hobbit and a woman. And I'm not sure the tokenism of Liv Tyler's weak role in the films did much to further the cause of women.
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with a light twist: “for none of woman born/ Shall harm Macbeth”, just making it "no man can kill me"... men being the ones who had power, Tolkien gave the role to a woman..., and the same situation Macbeth faces when he learns that Macduff was not born from a woman but instead: “Macduff was from his mother’s womb/Untimely ripped”, is exactly the same that ill creature meets, just before it dies, as Macbeth did, at the hands of the daughter/son of a good man he had killed...There´s another parallel, adding to this, and it comes when that wood rises in arms against Saruman, again the same as in Macbeth:“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until/ Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill/ Shall come against him”...
Yes, Tolkien drank from different springwells, and then combined what he took in some wise ways...
Regards
BF
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