Here are instructions for one of Eowyn's mutitudinous hair styles.  It is NOT a braid.  However, I think this must be the one several people have written to me asking instructions for.  Several notes on Eowyn's hair styles, which may help to clear up confusion:

• She alternates through a series of hair styles, sometimes within the same scene.

• Most of her hair styles are accomplished with combs or bobby pins.  None of them are braids.

• The most elaborate hair style, with the circlet, she has for maybe 5 seconds.  It's not a braid, and I will most likely never put up instructions for it since I don't get to see most of it.  It seems to be accomplished simply by rolling the hair and fastening it in place with bobby pins or combs.

Directions: Part the hair in the center. Use your right hand to separate a small section of hair at the right-hand side of the part.  It should be about an inch wide along the part and maybe an inch and a half along the face.
Hold the strand about two inches from the scalp in your left hand, to keep it from twisting too near the scalp to look informal. Use your right hand to twist the rest of the strand in towards the head. Note: Don't twist too tightly or the section you're protecting from twist will twist anyway.
Hold the end of the right-hand strand with right thumb and index finger. Use your left hand to separate a small section of hair at the left-hand side of the part.  It should be about an inch wide along the part and maybe an inch and a half along the face.
Hold the left-hand strand between index and ring fingers about two inches from the scalp in your right hand while still holding the right-hand strand between thumb and index finger. Use your left hand to twist the rest of the strand in towards the head. Note: Don't twist too tightly or the section you're protecting from twist will twist anyway.
Hold the two sections together in back, adjusting for how high you want it on the head, then pin the two strands together with a bobby pin, rubber band, butterfly clip, bubble gum, or whatever you feel like putting in your hair to keep the two strands together. Note: The reason that I don't consider this to be a braid is that no part of it can be left to hang fastened only to itself without it unwinding.  If you don't fasten the twisted strands to each other or to the rest of the hair, they will simply unwind.
Ta-da!  You now know how to create one of Eowyn's hair styles.

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