The 5 Best Female Characters In LOTR

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It's no secret that The Lord of the Rings is a very male-heavy story. In fact, in the past a lot of high fantasy tended to have scads of male characters while women were pushed to the side, often used as love interests and nothing more. More modern fantasy has a lot more female involvement and tends to have more feminist ideas, partially because there are more women involved in the creation of the stories themselves now.

That being said, the female representation that is present in Lord of the Rings could be considered somewhat progressive for the time, as having any female characters with any agency at all in such a male-dominated story was hard to come by. The women that appear in Lord of the Rings are each unique in their own way and provide something important and interesting to the overall story itself. Here are the most major players and what makes them so prominent.

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Though she was given more to do in the film adaptations of Tolkien's work, Arwen is still super important in the book version of The Lord of the Rings. She is Elrond's daughter and Aragorn's love interest, but her purpose in the story is much more than that. She becomes the representative of the struggle between mortal and immortal life. She and Aragorn have a love story for the ages (quite literally) as she gives up her Elf status to live a mortal life in order to be with him, rather than having to sail off to the Undying Lands with the rest of the Elves.

She has more of a passive role in the books, but in the movies, Arwen's warrior side gets to show a little more. She rescues Frodo after he receives a deadly stabbing from the Witch-King, outrunning the Nazgûl and carrying him to Rivendell. In one of her