Probably an irrelevancy to this thread, but...
while it's not Middle-earth, in the legendarium the Ainulindale and Valaquenta
have an interesting slant on a kind of female empowerment, even up to the
level of the Vala. Consider Varda:
Quote:
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Out of the deeps of Ea she came to the aid of Manwe; for Melkor she knew from before the making of the Music and rejected him, and he hated her, and feared her more then all others whom Eru made.
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And Manwe and Varda have complimentary and reinforcing powers when
they work together in concert. An echo of Tom Bombadil and Goldberry?