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Random headcanon:
Morwen passed down traditional Gondorian stories to her children and grandchildren, so Éowyn already knows parts of the Silmarillion before she sets foot in Gondor.
It’s only parts, of course. For one, she’s had considerably more pressing matters to think about than tales she heard as a child, and she has the stories of her own people to remember, anyway. The ride of Eorl the Young is vastly more significant to her than anything to do with the Silmarillion.
And for another, she was … well, a child, so the version she got was strictly editorialized by Morwen/Théodwyn/Théoden to appeal to a little girl of the Eorlingas (e.g., strongly skewed towards Edain and pared-down).
Even so, she heard enough from the Silmarillion to often be “oh, I remember that” when people expect the tales to be completely new to her and to contextualize the fuller versions she hears in Gondor. Either way, it’s nice to hear both the tales she never knew and the ones she remembers—as stories, and as points of connection to Morwen.
Random headcanon:
Morwen passed down traditional Gondorian stories to her children and grandchildren, so Éowyn already knows parts of the Silmarillion before she sets foot in Gondor.
It’s only parts, of course. For one, she’s had considerably more pressing matters to think about than tales she heard as a child, and she has the stories of her own people to remember, anyway. The ride of Eorl the Young is vastly more significant to her than anything to do with the Silmarillion.
And for another, she was … well, a child, so the version she got was strictly editorialized by Morwen/Théodwyn/Théoden to appeal to a little girl of the Eorlingas (e.g., strongly skewed towards Edain and pared-down).
Even so, she heard enough from the Silmarillion to often be “oh, I remember that” when people expect the tales to be completely new to her and to contextualize the fuller versions she hears in Gondor. Either way, it’s nice to hear both the tales she never knew and the ones she remembers—as stories, and as points of connection to Morwen.