And part of my intense affection for the series was due in no small part to the strong development of its female characters. I apologize in advance, but my references are primarily to the films.) I quickly skipped through all three before moving on to the director's cuts of each, a sum total of more than 15 hours of movie time. (I read them, too, but was derailed by too many plot diversions somewhere in the middle of The Two Towers. Tolkien's novels, until the entire trilogy had been released. I didn't watch Lord of the Rings, or read J.R.R. Yet what the women of Lord of the Rings lack in quantity, they make up in quality: Some of the most important back stories come from characters like Arwen and Eowyn, though these nine Lord of the Rings women ranked by character development range from nearly inanimate to fully fleshed-out. Their male counterparts, the intrepid team that comprises Aragorn, Frodo Baggins, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Legolas, and Gimli the dwarf, far outnumber them. (One Time Magazine writer noted, " Tolkien seems to have wiped women off the face of Middle-earth.") Among the speaking roles, there are elves - Cate Blanchett's Galadriel, Liv Tyler's Arwen - and mortals - Miranda Otto's Eowyn - as well as several hobbit ladies - Samwise Gamgee's wife Rosie Cotton and their daughter Elanor. Female characters in Lord of the Rings, from The Fellowship of the Ring to Return of the King, are relatively few and far between.
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