Eowyn and Aravis

sounds like eowyn!

This is Eowyn's very complaint, Rosy -- when Aragorn says her part of the battle is to stay behind and keep the homefront functional, and if the men should be defeated on the frontlines, then it will be her responsibility to hold out against the invaders as long as she can and make the best ending she can, despite the fact there will be no one left to sing of it ... and she tells him his words are the same as saying her part is to stay home out of the action and when he is dead, then she may have leave to burn with the rest of the household.

But perhaps this is another reason CS Lewis said through Aslan that battle is ugly when women are involved: by the time they are involved, it is a fight for the homefront, for their children, and so they are likely to be very fierce, like animal moms fight fiercely to defend their little ones.
 
I think women are better at spy warfare as they're so good at being bitchy and manipulative! :D Hee hee! Sorry! Please don't hit me - I was only joking.
 
Look out WHB *pokes in the ribs* - you don't want to encur the wrath of a whole thread load of rageful ladies!

What you say is very true Inkspot. I also suppose that his , Lewis, view of women in war would have been coloured by his own experiences, although I don't know a great deal about his earlier life- WWI &II etc
 
Thats true. Women were very important during the war. I f it wasn't for them there would have been no-one doing the jobs of keeping the country running, making ammunition, the hospital and care works, etc.

CS Lewis probably saw women in this way, not that they were useless at fighting or unable to, but that there were other areas where there skills were needed - ie. the bottle of Lucy's for healing wounds. This is probably more useful than the other gifts put together.

Now I've been nice to women, am I forgiven for my earlier comment :(
 
hey i'm new to this thread, and i hope it's ok if i draw the thread back to the original topic (of eowyn and aravis instead of feminism) so i can get my point in.

i do think there are a lot of similaities between the two women. the most interesting (to me at least) difference between them is that eowyn dresses up as a man because she wants to die in battle and aravis disguises herself as a man because she's seeking a new life in narnia.

i apologise again from distracting from women in battle theme, which is very interesting, and i apologise if i get any facts on the books wrong.
 
No apology necessary, that's a very astute observation. Perhaps the fact that LOTR's gritty realism is darker than Narnia has something to do with it ...
 
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