[Sam Cree]

RE: knowing anything about women, I've been happily married to the same beautiful lady for 28 years and have a 19 year old daughter that I adore, I think that may give me some, but only some, understanding of women, but even with all that, female ways of thinking and reacting still baffle me pretty often. This is a good thing I think...

Thanks for looking in the letters. I'm almost sure that in there somewhere is a passage directly related to defending the actual survival of most of the heroes. I can't seem to find it either, could I have read it somewhere else?

I'm wondering if the defense involves Tolkien's thinking that the main theme of LOTR is death, or that the background for LOTR, the Silmarillion (which I haven't read) contains so much tragedy.

[Overtaxed]

I'll keep looking but I'm not promising anything. :) Reading all the Letters seems to be in my immediate future.

[2Jedismom]

female ways of thinking and reacting still baffle me pretty often.

I feel the same way about male thinking!! Really, who puts a tie-dye in to wash with all your other nice clothes????