That's probably it - there might have been other badass ladies, but Eowyn was one of the earliest who ALSO got "Crowning Moments of AWESOME: Not Just for the Dudes" *_* When they started making the LOTR movies, pretty much the biggest thing I still remembered from the books was Eowyn. SO GLORIOUS.

(Maybe the solution is to do a list of 100 instead? :D)