"Originally, there was more stuff between Liv and I, jealous stuff about Aragorn.  I was like, 'No!'  But when I got there they said, 'Don't look at that stuff, we're not doing that stuff,' and I said, 'That's good because there are so few women in this so don't make us fight over the boy.'"

He turned and saw the Lady Eowyn of Rohan; and he was moved with pity, for he saw that she was hurt, and his clear sight perceived her sorrow and unrest.

     "Pete really likes all the actors to do all the fights themselves, as much as possible, but I can't do all the horse work myself because some of it is just too dangerous.  When you hit the battlefield things amp up 100 percent and Pete really pushes you.  He wants it to seem real and desperate, and the Battle of Pelennor Fields is the battle where everyone is basically riding to their deaths.  It's a more emotional battle than Helm's Deep.  Helm's Deep is a victory and exciting, but there is a lot of grief in the Pelennor Fields.  I felt completely overwhelmed when we were doing it."

     "Then Eowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful.  In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and maidens fairer still;  but neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor so lovely, and so sorrowful.  It may be that only a few days are left ere darkness falls upon our world, and when it comes I hope to face it steadily;  but it would ease my heart, if while the Sun yet shines, I could see you still.  For you and I have both passed under the wings of the Shadow, and the same hand drew us back."  ~Faramir.

     "We needed as many horse people as we could get, so they called for people across the country to come to the Pelennor Fields and a fair amount of them were women.  They put beards on them and the guys seemed to get strangely excited by these women with beards.  The women weren't very excited about having them on, with all that sticky stuff, but gee, it did something strange to the guys, especially Bernard and Viggo, look out."

     After the War of the Ring, Eowyn was known in the Mark as the Lady of the Shield-arm for her shield-arm being broken by the Witch King.

     "I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun and behold!  The Shadow has departed!  I will be a shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying.  I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.  No longer do I desire to be a queen."

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