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“If you set out to write a ‘strong female character,’ quote unquote, they’re going to smell it a mile off,” Boyens says. It’s that she feels real, rather than standing in for an archetype or simply ticking a box. Given the power of the moment, it’s no surprise that it has become one of the film’s breakout scenes, and it’s not just the fact that Éowyn is one of only a few major female characters in the franchise that explains why it has such an impact.

“It’s one of the great lines,” says Boyens, though she adds, with a laugh, “ were female screenwriters who had to write for all these male characters, and then we finally get this woman to write for, and she has to pretend to be a man.” “I am no man,” she says, before plunging her sword directly into his face.

Mounted on a fell beast, the Witch-king hisses at her to get out of his way, citing the elf Glorfindel’s prophecy that he could not be killed “by the hand of man.” Freed from his grasp by the intervention of the hobbit Meriadoc Brandybuck (Dominic Monaghan), Éowyn removes her helmet, revealing her face for him to see. Though commanded not to join the battle by her uncle Théoden (Bernard Hill), King of Rohan, on the basis of her gender, she enters the fray by disguising herself as a man - and finds herself face to face with the Witch-king of Angmar, the Lord of the Nazgûl, when she comes to her uncle’s aid.

In the 15 years since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King debuted in theaters, one frequently cited scene persists for the reasons that Boyens describes: Éowyn’s (Miranda Otto) slaying of the Witch-king of Angmar during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. “I mean, you write strong female characters because they’re authentic to the story and they are real, and they reflect something that young women can relate to.” “The truth of storytelling is, and I think female audiences especially prove this, is that you don’t need ‘strong female characters,’” says Philippa Boyens, speaking to Polygon about writing the scripts for the Lord of the Rings movies with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh.

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