page_title: Women in The Lord of the Rings
hierarchical_section_title: Women in The Lord of the Rings
caption_attribution_description: English: Arwen by Anna Kulisz (rysowania.deviantart.com), artwork inspired by the painting Stitching the Standard by British artist Edmund Leighton.
context_page_description: The roles of women in The Lord of the Rings have repeatedly been asserted to be insignificant, in a story about men for boys, though other commentators have noted the empowerment of the three major women characters, Galadriel, Éowyn, and Arwen.
  The work's author, J. R. R. Tolkien, indeed spent much of his life in an all-male environment, and did have conservative views about women. Much of the action in The Lord of the Rings is by male characters, and the nine-person Fellowship of the Ring is entirely male.
  On the other hand, the Elf-queen Galadriel is powerful and wise; Éowyn, noblewoman of Rohan, is extraordinarily courageous, killing the leader of the Nazgûl; and the half-elf Arwen, who chooses to be mortal to be with Aragorn, the man she loves, is central to the theme of death and immortality that runs through the work.
context_section_description: The roles of women in The Lord of the Rings have repeatedly been asserted to be insignificant, in a story about men for boys, though other commentators have noted the empowerment of the three major women characters, Galadriel, Éowyn, and Arwen.
  The work's author, J. R. R. Tolkien, indeed spent much of his life in an all-male environment, and did have conservative views about women. Much of the action in The Lord of the Rings is by male characters, and the nine-person Fellowship of the Ring is entirely male. 
  On the other hand, the Elf-queen Galadriel is powerful and wise; Éowyn, noblewoman of Rohan, is extraordinarily courageous, killing the leader of the Nazgûl; and the half-elf Arwen, who chooses to be mortal to be with Aragorn, the man she loves, is central to the theme of death and immortality that runs through the work.
caption: Some commentators have accused Tolkien of placing women only in background roles while the male protagonists see all the action.[1] Arwen sewing Aragorn's banner, by Anna Kulisz, 2015, inspired by Edmund Leighton's 1911 Stitching the Standard
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