Tolkien testosterone

[lupinesque]

I wrote:

>Again 
> I point toward the bizarrely female-free world of Tolkien, where 
> there are a whopping three female characters and one of them exists 
> solely as Aragorn's love interest

Whoops, that's in LOTR/The Hobbit.  The Silmarillion is a different 
matter.  (But I can't get into it except as a soporific--it's been 
helping me get to sleep for months now.)

Carry on,
Amy Z