Assignment 22 Caty Beth Gooding

I don’t know who I'd want to be. Probably a woman from Lord of the Rings. Arwen is pretty cool because she knows what she wants and she sticks with her wants, even though her father is pressuring her into going into safety. Eowyn is really a cool character who doesn't get enough props. She crushes on the King of men, but when he rejects her, she doesn’t push it . She rides off into battle disguised as a man and even takes Merry with her, a burden that not even the "strongest of [Theoden's] men" could carry. She fights the King of the Nazgul after he slaughters her uncle (who wasn’t the nicest person for quite some time). She even survives almost killing him and eventually lives a happy life (as far as we can tell) There is also Tauriel, who knows that Legolas is in love with her and still is friends with him. She uses his help (that she might not otherwise get from him) to save the dwarf  she loves (how scandalous) and his family. Legolas' father is very rude to her and she still has dignity, which I admire about her. Galadriel refused The One Ring and with that, the power to rule Middle Earth, because she knew what she could do with the power. I admire that she could give up that sort of power for the better of the world. Even Shelob the spider is pretty cool, I mean she hides Cirith Ungol under Sauron's eye and doesn’t get caught or killed for a very long time, and even manages to pick of little orcs to eat. That is pretty cool. Honestly being any of those characters would be pretty good. I think they have merits to them that I don't think I have, but that I want to have. They are all strong, and can defend for themselves, though in slightly different ways.

Also, sorry if I misspelled anything, it has been several years since I have read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.