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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc
In any case, I don't know what is the reason to bring her in, but what I hate the most are these pseudo-heroines (indeed, pseudo-heroines, because on top of everything else, they are mostly just pitiful less-than-human or less-than-elf or whatnot creatures) invented out of nowhere because there weren't enough women in the books.
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I wonder if Tollers really isn't trying to give PJ an indication that he does not
approve of the former's attempts to market the book to a "modern" audience.
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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc
(I have the feeling I have been here before.)
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I think many have. I would say its "Arwen redux", except Arwen was at least an actual character in
LOTR, albeit one that had absolutely no speaking role in the books until almost the end of the story.