And, once again, Grond jumps into the middle of it.
Middle-earth abounds with female characters performing heroic acts.
Luthien rescues
Beren and dares death and worse.
Turin's mother
Morwen and his sister
Niniel are also both very heroic in the tale of their lives. A queen in
Numenor, an
elf maid in
Lorien foreswearing her immortality for love, an elf princess declining the
Ruling Ring so that the world will have a chance to live unhindered by
evil, a golden haired girl of
Rohan riding to glory on the
fields of Pelennor, an old woman of Lossarnach, playing her part in nursing the injured in the houses of healing and speaking an old rhyme which foretells the return of the king.
These are just a few examples of heroic acts of women in the works of JRRT. The problem that our female society has with these characterizations is that they were typical of a woman's role in earlier times (aka before 1960). Today, women want to be portrayed as the equal of man (and they are) but more importantly, they want to take the role of a hero for the sake of heroism. You'll notice that in most of the examples cited above, the woman undertook the heroic deed on behalf of her love for a chosen male (nothing pisses off a feminist more than this portrayal). A higher good may have also been served... but the primary motivation was on behalf of the man. That is what most feminists have a problem with. They continue to fail to understand that in the times portrayed in
Tolkien's
books, women were as heroic as the times and the author allowed. After all, they're Mr. Tolkien's books. If you don't like their message, read Harry Potter.
***Oh my
god! Bunzy, I have just realized that this post is terribly off subject. Please accept my apologies and let's see... what was the original question??***
