Mae govannen, Willow! Bravo on your post; quite comprehensive and convincing. (I mean, if I wasn't on your side already.)
In Willow's TIME quote, this was said:
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Don't let all the heartwarming Elf-Dwarf bonding between Legolas and Gimli fool you.
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Fool us indeed! Why is that fooling us? Honestly. Just because it disproves their argument? And if they'd READ the Lord of the Rings, they'd know that the Orcs weren't the only dark-skinned people. (I won't go into my vision of Orcs again. You can just scroll up.)
As for misogyny, picture this: Elrond chooses a woman to go to Mordor with the Fellowship. Can you imagine the pandemonium that would ensue? (And being a girl myself, don't you think about calling any of this sexist.) I know that I need to bathe more frequently than I'm sure the Fellowship did. We won't discuss any potential hormonal difficulties that would arise. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]
My dears, a girl in the Fellowship would quite frankly be a mistake. I don't care what the femenists say (says the self-proclaimed femenist), it's right and good that the Fellowship was a boy's club. The only thing that irks me when it comes to lack of women is Helm's Deep. If, as movie Eowyn said, women of Rohan learned that those who could not wield a sword could still die on one, why didn't they have the young, able women fighting at Helm's Deep anyway, when they had the six-year-old boys fighting, and the seventy-year-old men? I found that a little weird. But, I didn't write it. (Which is just as well.)
~*~Orual~*~