Miranda Otto: quietly slaying audiences for years, now she runs rings around evil furies in The Lord of the Rings. (This Month's Action Heroine).(Interview)

Interview | December 1, 2002| | Copyright

In this month's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and next year's The Return of the King, Miranda Otto gets to play the only fully realized woman J.R.R. Tolkien wrote into his epic triptych. As the Lady Eowyn--vainly enamored of Aragorn, harassed by the lecherous Grima, and distressed at being left behind when the Riders of Rohan go to war--she secretly girds up as a knight and suddenly finds herself facing the fearsome Nazgul Lord. The lissome Otto thus combines the Pre-Raphaelite ideals of yearning medieval damsel and armor-clad slayer of mythical beasts, though there's ...

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