Warrior Women - Name hunt

[LazarusLong42]

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
And Wr8th, how can you suggest suggest Arwen and Galadriel, who never picked up a sword or entered personal combat as far as we can tell from Tolkien's works, but not include Luthien, who took on the Dark Lord himself (Morgoth, that is, not to mention his lackey Sauron)??? Luthien is about the closest thing to the Greek sorceress type in modern literature. She jumps right into the fray like any of the men. And wins.

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I suspect the answer here is pretty simple: How many people, even Tolkien fans, have actually taken the time to read the Silmarillion? Those who have read only the trilogy know of Luthien only from songs. I would also contend that Galadriel, while not your standard warrior-type, has, along with Gandalf, been fighting the psychological and magical war for quite a few centuries.

A few from my favorite author, who, for as much as people called him anti-female, sure liked strong female characters:

Hilda Burroughs
Helen Stone
Star (from Glory Road)
Maureen Johnson Long

Of course... they don't make for great ship names

I've seen a couple of Trek names, but I haven't yet seen Beverly Crusher or Kathryn Janeway, both of whom have actually defeated entire Borg ships. (Or, in case two, an entire Borg hyperspace node).

Mother Abigail (from The Stand.)

An obscure one: Carmen "Red" Zuigiber. Bonus points, as usual, to the first who can place the reference.

Klotho, Lachesis, Atropos. (The Fates). Not exactly warriors but, hey, you going to argue with women who can cut your life short?

I see a mention of Diana below; her Greek name was Artemis.

And now, a few completely off-the-wall ones:

Dr. Josephine Baker (fought against infant mortality in NYC at the turn of the century. Saved an estimated 500k children's lives.)

Carrie Nation (fought for Prohibition. I don't agree with her, but hey, she carried an ax. I'm not messing with her )

Rosa Parks
Indira Gandhi
(both of whom fall under "peaceful warfare")

Admiral Grace Hopper (OK, not a warrior, but she's cool anyway.)

OK... I think that's enough for now

LL

[Sinapus]

Shannon Foraker, from the Honor Harrington series.

"Oops."

[geoschmo]

Tough women 'eh?

How about Janet Reno?

[dmm]

Molly Pitcher: carried water to the artillery guys during a battle of the US-GrtBrtn war (c. 1776), then took over swabbing out the cannons (using her petticoats, if you believe the story) when the men fell exhausted or dead.

Jael: pretended to befriend the fleeing enemy commander Sisera; once he was asleep she put a tent peg through his temples and into the ground. Ouch! (See Judges 4.)

How about Rosie the Riveter's construction yard base? Or the Mata Hari planet filled with spy centers.

And I can't believe nobody mentioned Diana Prince, alias Wonderwoman. We'd all be Nazis by now if it weren't for her!

[TerranC]

I thought this was supposed to be for tough as in mentality of the women...

Not for the Skin of the women.

Heck if we are talking about Skin or Body mass, why don't we put in Rosie o'Donnell?



Edit: The starship Rosie O'Donnell, To boldly go where no alternative lifestyle has gone before, and to advocate Intergalactic Adoption rights...

[ 28 March 2002: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[PvK]

Dogscoff, I assume you'll get all of Wagner's valkyrie names from Die Walkure from that viking site?

Practically all Nordic and Germanic female names have original meanings like "battle maiden", "shield maiden", "warrior maiden", etc.

For Greek names, include Medusa and her sisters' names!

I suppose there are names of the agents in The Avengers, all of whom routinely trounced and killed even without recourse to weapons: Catherine Gale, Emma Peel, Tara King.

[ 29 March 2002: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Master Belisarius]

What about Ma Baker and Margaret Tacher?