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Also, there are no evil Human/Elvish/Hobbit female characters (ie excluding Shelob and Ungoliant). In fact, there are no female characters with flaws that might cause us to disapprove of them in some way. In other words, there are no female Feanors, Wormtongues or Maeglins. The only female character that I can think of that comes anywhere near is Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, and her flaws are petty in the scheme of things, and she ends up with our sympathy.
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To be picky, there's also Thuringwethil.
Looking at these three (I'm not going to go into Lobelia, because as you stated, her 'evils' were just petty..) Thuringwethil, Ungoliant, and Shelob..Well, more so about Thuringwethil and Shelob. So Tolkien didn't have many main female characters, and even less evil ones. But the ones that were evil did accomplish a lot, such as Ungoliant... Morgoth couldn't have taken the Light of the Trees without her, IMO. Thuringwethil is the weaker side of my point, the only thing I can provide for her is that she provided Luthien a good disguise. But she WAS Sauron's messenger, so that probably meant she gave him some good info. Shelob is the weakest aspect of my musings. She greatly hindered the quest of the destruction of the Ring, but whether she knew she was doing that is really debatable.
Well, to wind up, this concludes--We all know there's far less females in Tolkien's works than males. There were a few that did important things, like Galadriel and Eowyn. But what I'm asking is- Does anyone think Tolkien was better at crafting evil female characters than ones dedicated to doing good? Mainly their accomplishments, I mean. We don't know much description wise of Thuringwethil besdies that she was a bat like thing. Okay, I'm rambling. Thanks if you're still reading. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]