"But is all this fantasizing really good for us? Should we worry about all these strapping men poking each other with sharpened phallic symbols? After all, on the political correctness meter The Lord of the Rings is radioactive. Where are the women? Peter Jackson filled out Liv Tyler's role for the movies (it's much less prominent in Tolkien's version), but the Fellowship is still as much a boys' club as Augusta National. And whiter too. Don't let all the heartwarming Elf-Dwarf bonding between Legolas and Gimli fool you. The only people with dark skin in Middle- earth are the Orcs. " Wonderful. We just couldn't let a popular, fun, and well-made masterpiece of filmmaking like Rings slip by without tossing the PC stinkbomb on it, could we, Time?
I bet the author of this nonsense thinks themselves clever, too, what with the "Augusta National" reference (Hey, support the NOW harpies AND bash "rich white males"! A two-fer!).
I guess we now can await the protest marches by Jesse Jackson( to end when PETER Jackson hires Jesse's buddies on his next installment) and NOW (to cease when PJ changes the script so that Aragorn is revealed to be gay, Arwen is revealed to be a lesbian, and Eowyn takes over as the Ruler of Gondor with her queen, Galadriel.).
A pox on PC.
Yes; we should be thankful this was a Peter Jackson production shot in New Zealand, far from the meddling of Hollywood. One shudders to think what would have happened had this been a typical Hollywood production.