Soledad's Journal

Good examples. Soooo... Eomer got chucked in the dungeons (or whatever there were in Meduseld). Faramir got smacked upside the head, railed at in Council and sent back out to die defending Osgiliath when Denethor KNEW it was going to fall. Both could have been patted on the head and told that, since they were the last surviving heir, they were going to be pardonned but don't do it again... Nope, they both got spanked for disobeying orders. Normal order of medieval-ness upheld. I don't want Eowyn bashed, I just want consistency. Of course, I'm that way as a manager too...don't tell me it's OK for a man to get away with X if a woman would get censured for it OR the other way around! It's *NOT* OK! Of course, in Middle Earth or the Middle Ages, there was no equality. So whatever my opinion, it's revisionist at best and probably more like heretical.