Douglas Charles Kane’s “Arda Reconstucted: The Creation of the Published Simarillion”

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Originally Posted by jallanite

I don’t see that that thread helps at all. I see that my own statement is actually somewhat weaker than what Kane claims.

Well I do think the thread helps in explaining what you've simplified here (however purposely, for brevity no doubt) in but one sentence.

I doubt that Christopher Tolkien and Guy Kay consciously decided to reduce female rolls and Kane never claims they did.

I don't believe that anyone in any way decided to reduce female roles specifically, and the point in the thread is not whether or not Doug Kane explicitly claims so, but his choice of presentation in raising this issue. Even possibly raising the question of misogyny is serious stuff in my opinion, so how one presents the matter, specifically, is important.