Second paragraph: I don't remember this, but it could be. Nevertheless, Theoden had asked her to do it, not someone else. Largely because she was a scion of the house of Eorl. It seems quite likely that, had Theoden and Eomer both been killed but the war had been won, they intended that she should become the first Ruling Queen of Rohan. So the guys might not have been as sexist as all that.
Last paragraph: And if the movies had made the time, by for instance cutting out ridiculous non-textual scenes like the badly-animated Legolas sliding down the elephant's trunk, they could have conveyed this.
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Date: 2006-06-13 05:32 pm (UTC)Second paragraph: I don't remember this, but it could be. Nevertheless, Theoden had asked her to do it, not someone else. Largely because she was a scion of the house of Eorl. It seems quite likely that, had Theoden and Eomer both been killed but the war had been won, they intended that she should become the first Ruling Queen of Rohan. So the guys might not have been as sexist as all that.
Last paragraph: And if the movies had made the time, by for instance cutting out ridiculous non-textual scenes like the badly-animated Legolas sliding down the elephant's trunk, they could have conveyed this.