Are Tolkiens Books Sexist? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

SlinkerStinker · 01-21-2002, 01:10 AM

Everyone seems ready to cast stones. I find it quite troubling that people look at someone's writing and then extrapolate from the writing into what the writer believed. If you want to try and make a case for Tolkien being a sexist, try and do it from letters he wrote or an interview he did, but not from his works of fiction.

Using this same "logic" you could say he was rasist as the only colored people he spoke of in LOTR where from way down south in the desert and were helping that nasty Sauron.

Woops maybe that's another thread all together though...

01-21-2002, 01:10 AM	#1
SlinkerStinker Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 12	Everyone seems ready to cast stones. I find it quite troubling that people look at someone's writing and then extrapolate from the writing into what the writer believed. If you want to try and make a case for Tolkien being a sexist, try and do it from letters he wrote or an interview he did, but not from his works of fiction. Using this same "logic" you could say he was rasist as the only colored people he spoke of in LOTR where from way down south in the desert and were helping that nasty Sauron. Woops maybe that's another thread all together though...