ÉOWYN, A SENHORA DE ROHAN: UMA ANÁLISE LINGÜÍSTICO-DISCURSIVA DA PERSONAGEM DETOLKIEN EM O SENHOR DOS ANÉIS

by PINHEIRO, RENATA KABKE

This work comprises a linguistic-discursive analysis of the character Eowyn in thenovel The Lord of The Rings (1954-1955) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973). Themain objective addresses the investigation of the presence of myths about the power, the roleand the depiction of women in the discourse about and attributed to that character within thebook. The theoretical support which was used is based on the Critical Discourse Analysis(CDA) model of Norman Fairclough (2001), the postulates of Mikhail Bakhtin (1992, 1993and 1997) and the concept of myth of Roland Barthes (1980). Divided into three chapters,after the theorethical part ? where we also make some considerations about gender ? wepresent the author, the book and the character. Next, we describe the methodology used forthe analysis and discuss the data with reference to: a) the depiction of women ? especially theone represented by the epithet ?The White Lady of Rohan? and connected to the myth offeminility; b) the power of women, as belonging/granted to or taken from them; c) the role ofwomen, with emphasis on the gender dichotomy and on the roles traditionally andhegemonically considered ?male? or ?female?. The study concludes that our researchhypothesis ? that, although the discourse attributed to and about Éowyn apparently seems tobe a breakthrough so as to questions of hegemonic power in gender relations, it in factperpetuates myths related to the power, the role and the depiction of women ? finds itscorroboration in the linguistic materiality of J.R.R. Tolkien?s text.