The cast of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, including Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, and Cate Blanchett, have been in many more ...

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The fantasy author created the name for a female warrior, who was portrayed by Australian ... The fictional Éowyn’s people, the Rohan, were known as horsemen and women.

The animated movie revisits key locations from that film -- such as the epic battleground fortress of Helm's Deep -- and is narrated by Miranda Otto, who played a heroic female Rohan warrior, Eowyn, ...

Additionally, Shieldmaidens are often associated with Norse Valkyries, female warrior beings who guide souls to Valhalla. Since Rohan and its people are based heavily on the Anglo-Saxons ...

are not skilled warriors, so Héra’s cousin and buddy Fréaláf is along for the ride, as the nominal personal protection of the already-quite-skilled-at-combat princess of Rohan. And that’s ...

In the appendices to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien offered hints and fragments of older tales and heroes who shaped the cultures of the Elves and the histories of Gondor and Rohan.

When Éowyn disguises herself as a man, she isn't the only woman to fight for Rohan because whenever Éomer (Karl Urban) leads the Riders of Rohan to battle, the warriors onscreen are mostly women.

Check out our full conversation below. Nerdist: So your character is an ancestor of Éowyn and another woman of Rohan. How do you feel Héra both sets up Éowyn and differs from her? Gaia Wise ...