Females in the Fellowship

[Lalaith]

One thing that does need to be pointed out, I think. If the Fellowship had a bunch of girls in it, I'd bet anything most of you boys on this board wouldn't be here, because you'd never have read the book....
...it's a sad fact of life that women will read books with either male or female protagonists but most men won't read books with females in the main roles. That's why JK Rowling had to write about Harry Potter rather than Harriet - oh, and also why she had to call herself JK rather than Joanne on the book covers - her publishers told her boys wouldn't read books by female authors...