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Well it would as she would no longer be an Elf Queen but a king and that has different themes and connotations but I get what you are saying though even that goes against your arguments in a way, if he hates women so much and she can easily be replaced by a man, then why wasn't she?

I would not really compare Cordelia or Boudica to her at all, they are completely different in pretty much every way, even you elude to that.

>the next step as strong warrior leader would have been the Queen of Rohan, satisfying the actual feminist power fantasy
>Best would have been this: kill the nazgul without the help of the hobbit, get a unit for herself and some task to do, she gets defeated and her men killed, commits suicide.

Even you have to admit that you are just getting silly now. In fact most of this is just silly now. You are talking about a completely different book with completely different themes, if Tolkien didn't feel like making a doomsday feminist power fantasy then that's fine, if he did then that is fine as well, but it's a different story and one should not criticise an author for picking one and not the other any more than one should criticise an author for writing fantasy instead of historical fiction.

>No, they are prose. At least those which I read (I remember I read both the Vinland sagas, and a couple others I can't recall now), or have a copy of.
Edda has both version.

There is a Poetic Edda and a Prose Edda as well as poetry in the Prose Edda and much of the Prose Edda may have been based on Poetry, it's irrelevant. The point is that it wasn't ever written down before the middle ages, in the same way you can say that the Nibelungenlied could have been rewritten over the years(and was) so could have the Sagas been and they most likely were.