[grellis]

That's right, she was a healer, or a healer's helpmate, toward the end of ROTK. And the elf (I can't believe I forgot her name!) who marries Aragorn. Her character was a few sentences long in the book, but a fairly important character in the films. Very, very few dames in LOTR.

There were a lot in The Silmarillion, though, and they were quite complex.

[Tax-chick]

Arwen, and in the LOTR books, she’s no more emotionally involved than a statue of Queen Victoria.

[Corin Stormhands]

And there’s Goldberry in LOTR. As well as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.

And Rosie Cotton.