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They literally use men to refer to the entire race of humans multiple times...
Literally call it the race of men/man several times. Does that technically make Eowyn genderfluid or just paradoxical since she is both a man in the sense of race but also states herself that she isn't a man?
Racial fluid?
We're onto something big here
The race of men is capitalised, so man=male and Man=the race.
Notice the lack of capitalisation in Witch-King's quote
The "werman" counterpart to "woman" would have been really useful for writing fantasy stories with multiple sapient species if it had ever been used. Or if we all started using it now.