Tolkien testosterone

[aldrea279]

Amy Z:
>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

Well, as AV already pointed out, there weren't *just* three female 
characters total.  There were other minor ones in there as well.  
But, like Pip, the lack of female roles in comparison to the many 
many many male roles didn't bother me that much.  I appreciate the 
females that are there, as they do have rather large positions of 
power.  Galadriel runs things more than Celeborn, and infact is older 
than him, IIRC.  She also came from the Blessed Relm, and made the 
long haul across that icy bridge, just to get to a land where her 
kind would slowly die out.  I like her role just the way it is, and 
I'm rather annoyed with the movies that have her and her grandaughter 
in very blown-up roles(they're *both* in TTT...grr). Arwen didn't do 
quite as much, except giving up immortal life with her kind to die 
with Aragorn...  And then Eowyn and her whole defeat of the Nazgul 
King...    There was enough of the female touch to keep me happy.

Amy Z:
> 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.)

The Silmarilion really has some great stories in it, if only it 
hadn't been written in such a Dictionary-boring style. =P

~Aldrea