If I may, Kuruharan, the letter you allude to in which Tolkien says that the woman, in the courtly love tradition, is "another fallen human-being with a soul in peril" is Letter # 43, written to his son Michael, 6-8 March 1941. Tolkien also says that, even when "harmonized with religion" the courtly love tradition causes men and women to forget that they are "companions in shipwreck." p. 49 in my paperback HarperCollins edition, l995.
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