Have you ever asked yourself...why is LOTR basically mail story...
I think that there is less woman just because they have more important roles... It s pretty interesting that not one women in LOTR is a «bad guy» (except Ungoliath´s daughter)... My personal opinion is that Tolkien describes women in some kind of knight way... What´s yours?
__________________ Uuma quena en'mani lle ume ri'mani lle umaya. Uma ta ar'lava ta quena ten'irste'.
Don't talk about what you have done or what are you going to do. Do it and let it speak for itself.
well i dont think tolkien didnt respect women tho, because you can tell that he held galadriel higher than celeborn, plus there was melian who had extreme power, and a few of the varda were female as well
__________________
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - J.R.R. Tolkien
Perhaps because women were considered inferior in many ways when he wrote the books....I believe women were not allowed to go to war in those times....so Tolkien visualized women as the untouched perfect etherial being, much like Arwen and Galadriel, yet powerful enough to make them feel guided and loved....which is probably what the soldiers expected when they came bk home from war in those days....
__________________ "all we have to do, is decide what to do with the time that is given to us..."-Gandalf.
did you know that mostly women played orcs in the movies because they would tolerate the costumes better? when i went to see lxg and finding nemo, that fact came up on screen.
I am not saying HE (Tolkien) thought that.....I am merely saying this was the approach towards women in those years!...As far as Eowyn is concerned, she is the representation of the strong females HE admired (perhaps), that stayed behind to take care of the household and suffer the consequences of war, that no doubt affect every aspect of a country...Don't mistake me! I am not saying they r not strong! Tolkien admired women, don't forget his mother suffered an illness and died when he was still young...and he didn't exactly have a father figure!.That is why i believe he created women as supreme creatures in his stories, and men maybe in some way, to be the heroic figures he encountered at war, yet missed as a child...
__________________ "all we have to do, is decide what to do with the time that is given to us..."-Gandalf.
i agree with u verity.
and also i think it's because tolkien was surrounded mostly by men, and his story does reflect parts of his life, for example the bonding between the fellowships.
__________________ i don't mean to sound distasteful but when did you start crapping money?
KMC Community Forums
Women in LOTR
Aug 11th, 2003 08:56 PM
