Tolkien Testosterone was Re: Star Wars Characters

[pippin_999]

Boggles wrote:

> FWIW, I don't remember any girls wanting to be Vader.  Or 
anyone on the Imperial side.  I think we _were_ all observant 
enough to notice,  even back in kindergarten, that there were 
_no_ women in the Empire at all.  Not one.  Against that, the 
Rebellion looks a lot better . . . it only has two of note, but boy,
do 
they kick butt . . .<

I am too old to have played Star Wars, but we did play LOTR. 
Nobody wanted to be Shelob, but the lack of female baddies 
inspired us to make up our own. (She owed a lot to Achren of 
Prydain, and Terry and the Pirates' s Dragon Lady).  We enjoyed 
this very much.  

Girls who really love the Potterverse don't seem to have any 
trouble making up additional female characters either, judging 
by the stories on ffnet, or thinking of things for them to do. The 
great thing about fantasy stories is that you don't have to accept 
them as given. Children recognize this, I think. It's only us grown 
ups that obsess over canon.


Pippin