[HCIsland]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> HC, are you just Peter Jackson in disguise? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I wish! <P>Nope, just someone who likes his movies.<P>People can talk history and they're making a point, but here were talking about the culture of Rohan, and I don't see anywhere in Tolkien's work that indicate that women fight along side of the men. It's a cultural thing. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.<P>I don't think this is an inconsistency either as there were women and children at Helm's Deep in the book as well. Not the people of Edoras, but the citizens of the Westmarch. Did the women here fight? No, they did not. Did old men and young boys fight? This is Gamling (from the book) describing the forces he has at Helm's Deep, "But most of them have seen too many winters, as I have, or too few, as my son here." I think the implication was that we had everyone from young teenagers to older men fighting.<P>As for Eomer deserting his people. He was banished in the film and, at the time, knew nothing of the attacks in the Westmarch. It was reasonable for him to head north as that was were they were encountering orcs at the time.<P>H.C.