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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by isaacfrond on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:21AM (#31848005)
Not to mention the abysmal position of women in the book. Did you know that there are zero women in The Hobbit? Not to forget the thinly concealed racism.

I've read the book many times, but recently, I can't enjoy them anymore like I used to.

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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by adrianN on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:34AM (#31848906)
Few women going on adventures in a pre-industrial society doesn't strike me as odd.
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by bell-cot on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:30AM (#31850509)
Nor was few women going on adventures the least bit odd for the era in which the books were written. And that being an age (WWI to WWII) where "men got to go out on exciting adventures" was often a rose-colored-glasses translation of "over 100,000 lucky men got to become casualties of war in merely the Second Battle of Ypres, in which the Germans first used poison gas on a large scale" grim realities...being a woman starts to sound like the better deal.
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