{"id":3335,"date":"2007-01-30T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/01\/our-lady-eowyn\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:50:00","slug":"our-lady-eowyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/01\/our-lady-eowyn.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady Eowyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/Rb_aHeOgoyI\/AAAAAAAAAMA\/aKt323Vsym4\/s1600-h\/Eowyn_and_the_Nazgul.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/Rb_aHeOgoyI\/AAAAAAAAAMA\/aKt323Vsym4\/s320\/Eowyn_and_the_Nazgul.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Tolkien loathed allegory. It was too obvious; too blatant; too literal; too dead. In allegory one thing means one thing and that\u2019s it. Myth, on the other hand, is alive. It\u2019s a real story with the real ambiguity and complexity of real life. Tolkien\u2019s world is multi-layered and yet full of Christian meaning all the same.<\/p>\n<p>In LOTR one female doesn\u2019t represent the Blessed Virgin Mary; they all do. Galadriel and Arwen and Aragorn\u2019s mother all represent the Blessed Virgin in different ways\u2013so does Rosie back in the Shire for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>See Eowyn? When she slays the dragon she is the valiant victor over evil prophesied in Genesis 3:15. There, where woman is defeated by the serpent it is prophesied that the seed of woman will trample the head of the serpent. In the film version the Nazgul hisses, \u2018No man can slay me.\u2019 Eowyn removes her helmet, shakes out her hair and sneers with victory, \u2018I am no man!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>At that moment the Christian story comes alive again, Our Lady Eowyn reveals Our Lady Mary who also, with her meek victory and humble strength reclaims the battle as the second Eve and tramples the serpent\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien loathed allegory. It was too obvious; too blatant; too literal; too dead. In allegory one thing means one thing and that\u2019s it. Myth, on the other hand, is alive. It\u2019s a real story with the real ambiguity and complexity of real life. 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