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Mithalwen · 11-18-2005, 03:12 PM

Cailin has made some good points.

I also think that the fact that most of the characters are non-human minimises the gender thing. Bilbo child sized and slightly childlike as he ventures into the wider world but he is not a little boy. So even though on mature reflection the thing could have been subtitled if not the Hemingwayan " men without women" then "males without females" I don't think I even noticed as a child.

However, I do find it depressing that people who have presumably to some extent chosen to study Literature have not got the self discipline to get through the Hobbit. I mean I am never going to be a Dickens fan but I did my penance of 50-100 pages a day when I had to.... I used to find that I would quite enjoy the last 200 pages having slogged through the first 700......

11-18-2005, 03:12 PM	#66
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Cailin has made some good points. I also think that the fact that most of the characters are non-human minimises the gender thing. Bilbo child sized and slightly childlike as he ventures into the wider world but he is not a little boy. So even though on mature reflection the thing could have been subtitled if not the Hemingwayan " men without women" then "males without females" I don't think I even noticed as a child. However, I do find it depressing that people who have presumably to some extent chosen to study Literature have not got the self discipline to get through the Hobbit. I mean I am never going to be a Dickens fan but I did my penance of 50-100 pages a day when I had to.... I used to find that I would quite enjoy the last 200 pages having slogged through the first 700...... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace Last edited by Mithalwen; 06-13-2008 at 06:14 AM.