The Two Towers: Serious Concerns With The Stew Scene

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Originally Posted by Snowdog

Yes, the 'I'm royalty-so-I-can't-cook' terrible stew trope. They really made Éowyn out to be such a dingbat blonde in that scene. I mean, screwed up stew and she didn't even know how bad it was? That whole scene was 'cheese'. But then again, it was a P.J. Walsh & Co. fanfic so that's how they wanted to present it.

Maybe a possible reason the stew was so bad was because of zero seasoning and the Warg-Meat in it?

Indeed. Tolkien would have known, as PJ plainly didn't, was that one of the principal responsibilities of the lady of a great house was supervising the kitchens, and looking over the cooks' shoulders. Indeed, they were even sometimes buried with their bunch of keys, as almost a badge of office. Nor should we forget that the word lady itself descends from OE hlafdiga, "loaf-giver."