Niiiice, S, [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].
My friend at the English Department in Duke has pointed out that Éowyn is Tolkien's answer to Shakespeare in terms of what Tolkien percieved to be Shakespeare's attitude toward language.
Tolkien, apparently, was disappointed that in Macbeth the power of language in prophecy seems to be denied, i.e., he viewed Macduff and the incident with the Birnum Wood as cop-outs.
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~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~
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