*applauds Lush and Child for demonstrating wherein lies discussion and debate, as opposed to mere opinion.*
As to the effect of Tolkien's experience as a teacher, here's a quotation from a letter to his son Michael, 6 - 8 March 1941. Letter # 43.
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Under this impulse [that of sympathy and understanding] they [women] can in fact often achieve very remarkable insight and understanding, even of things otherwise outside their natural range: for it is their gift to be receptive, stimulated, fertilized (in many other matters than the physical) by the male. Every teacher knows that. How quickly an intelligent woman can be taught, grasp his ideas, see his point -- and how (with rare exceptions) they can go no further, when they leave his hand, or when they cease to take a personal interest in him.
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Hmm.
Bethberry