The Role of Women in The Lord of the Rings

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Probably an irrelevancy to this thread, but...

while it's not Middle-earth, in the legendarium the Ainulindale and Valaquenta
have an interesting slant on a kind of female empowerment, even up to the
level of the Vala. Consider Varda:

Out of the deeps of Ea she came to the aid of Manwe; for Melkor she knew from before the making of the Music and rejected him, and he hated her, and feared her more then all others whom Eru made.

And Manwe and Varda have complimentary and reinforcing powers when
they work together in concert. An echo of Tom Bombadil and Goldberry?