#Justice4Eowyn

[coast-dweller]

i always knew that they kinda screwed Éowyn over in the NL films (through no fault of Miranda Otto, whom I pray to every night), but i just rewatched the scene where she confronts the witch king and she has like,,

NO dialouge??

how is the scene from the book is easily my favourite, bar none; and yet I'm only just realizing this??

For comparison the film does this:

The Witch-King swoops down on his fellbeast, throwing Théoden under his horse. Éowyn watches in Terror. The Witch-King commands the beast to "Feast on his flesh" before Éowyn jumps in front, proclaiming "I will kill you if you touch him!" to which the Witch-King replies "Do not come between the Nazgûl and his prey". She then decapitates the fellbeast, followed by the Witch-King getting up and swinging his flail around until he eventually knocks Éowyn to the ground and says "You fool, no man can kill me...", then he gets stabbed in the knee by Merry and we get the famous "I am no man!" quote as Éowyn plunges her sword into the Witch-King's face killing him.

So that's... two lines for Éowyn in the film, and three for the Witch-King.

Whereas the book does THIS:

Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling some other voice that he had known. 'Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!' A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye.' A sword rang as it was drawn. 'Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may.' 'Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!' Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. 'But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.'

now, i get that movies have to make certain sacrifices when adapting stuff, but to reduce one of the most bad-ass fucking moments in the entire trilogy into 5 okayish lines is honestly despicable; i WISH i could have seen Miranda Otto respond to the WK's graphic and grusome threats with the fucking chad line "Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may." or at least - AT FUCKING LEAST - give me the raw bad-assery that is "You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."

but NO, all we get is "I will kill you if you touch him" and "I am no man",,

BULL - FUCKING - SHIT

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