Your Daily Tolkien Ping! Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!
Posted on 11/21/2002 10:02:34 AM PST by JameRetief
Your Daily Tolkien Ping! Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!
1) Who was Tom Bombodil? by Gene Hargrove
2) Celeborn Unplugged by Michael Martinez
3) Speaking of Legolas... by Michael Martinez
4) A Bit of Light: Visions and Transformations of the Ring Quest by Cara J. Loup
5) Them Dwarves, Them Dwarves! - Part One and Two by Michael Martinez
6) Something wicked this way comes by Michael Martinez
7) Men Are From Gondor, Women Are From Lothlórien by Anwyn
Darlin', I spend my life surrounded by Orcs. I don't need to go actively hunting them out.
And besides, I'm too busy at home shaving my feet ;-)
Happygal (of Hobbiton)
The point is, it’s easy to see why Tolkien could come across as having a dislike of women.
Her statement there is pure bull pucky. The women in the story are either beautiful, powerful, or both, and all have virtue and grace. LoTR is a lot of things, but it spends much of it time being a grand war epic. That is the realm of the male. Chicks in the 40's when Tolkien was writing, did not go to war. And yet, in his story he creates one who bravely did just that.
Only a very shallow person could find dislike of women in this story.
Miss HairOfTheDog....
May I suggest shaving a little higher there?
Oh boy, now I've torn it...
Your friend,
Orc, er, I mean, Argh
Hi, Hair!
LOL, yeah, way too soon. The author went on to say great things about Tolkien's views on women. An example:
It’s all in what you choose, and Tolkien knew this. His women are as varied in their paths of destiny as they are in their looks and height. The fact that there are so few of them is a result of how Tolkien himself views women: as special.
 Ring Ping!! |
My wife is having no such problem with the Lothlorien part though.
A Day in the Life of the Dark Lordess
Updates coming after Thanksgiving!
Have also been trying to finish up my fanfiction, which centers on Pippin and Aragorn (no its not slash!!!). I am still about two chapters away from finishing, but Im close!
The Falling of Small Stones At FanFiction.net (for now)
Excerpt:Perhaps it was the shadows of the hall that had made him seem so glum, Aragorn thought, as they finally settled on a bench in the kitchen of what was to be his home.
“Do you know, it does my heart good to know that the fellowship we had remains in the city,” Aragorn ventured, speaking around a mouthful of fresh baked bread. “If I had seen an elf take gardening advice from a hobbit anywhere else, I would have thought I had crossed the seas into a different world.”
Pippin forsook table manners as well, leaning back in the large chair to prop his feet upon the seat of another, gaining full advantage of the moment of leisure.
“What surprises me,” the hobbit rejoined, “is that we are together at all. I feel as a small pebble that had bounced just the right way into the right path, knocking just the right boulder into motion.”
And setting off an avalance, Aragorn finished to himself.
“Well, you must remember what Galadriel spoke to us, how perilously close we were to falling to the wayside,” Aragorn replied, not at all taken aback by the directness with which Pippin faced the conversation.
Pippin’s gaze turned sharp, almost rueful.
“Do you think it was mere circumstance then?”
Aragorn took a deep breath. What was bothering this otherwise unquenchable hobbit?
“I mean,” the hobbit stammered, taking the puzzled look on the King’s face for amusement at his expense. Reflex. “I mean, all of this. That you became king, that we defended Gondor, that Frodo made it to the Crack of Doom, that Gollum, that horrid creature, actually fell in…”
Ah.
“Was it prophecy? Or was it chance? Only the Valar know,” Aragorn cast out the most obvious reply, mind racing to discover which way the hobbit’s thoughts were flowing.
Oh I dunno! *L* I can be bought. But I don't come cheap ;-) *LOL*
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