She's a feminist ideal, a fierce warrior as capable with a sword as any man, spurred by love to do battle with the deadliest of enemies, a soldier who sometimes needs to conceal her true identity from even those closest to her.
You wanna know what else The Bride (from "Kill Bill") and Eowyn had in common?
They were both almost played by Uma Thurman.
"Yeah, I was asked," Thurman confirmed to MTV News of an offer from Peter Jackson to play Eowyn in the second and third films in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. "I had a small child at the time and I couldn't go away for a year. I was just too attached to home. It just caught me at the wrong moment." Read more...