Gimli's Horde: E'owyn Traditional Cache
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Congrats to FuzzyOso for FTF! This is #9 in a series of 12 commemorating Gimli's Fellowship in LOTR. Bring pen, pencil or other writing utencil.
Éowyn means "horse lover" or "friend of horses" in the Old English language (the language Tolkien used to represent Rohirric) - Eoh- meaning "horse" (which Tolkien renders Éo-) and -wyn meaning "joy".
A corresponding Greek name would be Philippa, coincidentally the name of one of the writers of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (Philippa Boyens).
The first syllable of Éowyn sounds like "eh-ah," with the "ah" just barely pronounced. As in Scandinavian or Finnish, the y in the second syllable is the same sound as the German letter ü or the French u. The actors in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy consistently pronounce her name as well as the names of Éomer and Théoden in a manner inconsistent with most reconstructions of Old English pronunciation.
Tolkien maintained Éowyn was not the character's actual name. Her real name in Rohirric is not given, but it, as well as Éomer and Éomund, would have started with the element Lô- or Loh-, meaning "horse", the equivalent of Old English Éo-.
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Fur vf n ubefr ybire, qvqa'g lbh ernq gur qrfpevcgvba? YBY!
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