Éowyn's Quotes
Book Quotes
"You are a stern lord and resolute, and thus do men win renown. Lord, if you must go, then let me ride in your following. For I am weary of skulking in the hills, and wish to face peril and battle."
"Your duty is with your people," Aragorn answered.
"Too often have I heard of duty," she cried. "But am I not of the house of Eorl, a shieldmaiden and not a dry-nurse? I have waited on faltering feet long enough. Since they falter no longer, it seems, may I not now spend my life as I will? . . . Shall I always be left behind when the Riders depart, to mind the house while they win renown, and find food and beds when they return?"
--The Return of the King: The Passing of the Grey Company
"All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more,. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death."
"What do you fear, lady?" Aragorn asked.
"A cage," she answered. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."
"And yet you counselled me not to adventure on the road that I had chosen, because it is perilous?"
"So may one counsel another," she answered. "Yet I do not bid you flee from peril, but to ride to battle where your sword may win renown and victory. I would not see a thing that is high and excellent cast away needlessly."
"Nor would I," he said. "Therefore I say to you, lady: Stay! For you have no errand to the South."
"Neither have those who go with thee. They go only because they would not be parted from thee - because they love thee." Then she turned and vanished into the night.
--The Return of the King: The Passing of the Grey Company
"But I do not desire healing. I wish to ride to war like my brother Éomer, or better like Théoden the king, for he died and has both honour and peace."
---The Return of the King: The Steward and the King
"Lose what you have found, lord?" She answered; but she looked at him gravely and her eyes were kind. "I know not what in these days you have found that you could lose, But come, my friend, let us not speak of it! Let us not speak at all! I stand upon some dreadful brink, and it is utterly dark in the abyss before my feet, but whether there is any light behind me I cannot tell. For I cannot turn yet. I wait for some stroke of doom."
---The Return of the King: The Steward and the King
"Alas, not me, lord! Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldnmaiden and my hand is ungentle. But I thank you for this at least, that I need not keep to my chamber. I will walk abroad by the grace of the Steward of the City."
---The Return of the King: The Steward and the King
"I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun, and behold the Shadow has departed! I will be a shileld maiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. No longer do I desire to be a queen."
---The Return of the King: The Steward and the King
Movie Quotes
"Your words are Poison"
---The Two Towers: The King of the Golden Hall
"The women of this country learned long ago; those without swords can still die upon them."
---The Two Towers: A Daughter of Kings
"I am no man."
---The Return of the King: Shieldmaiden of Rohan
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