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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
Such is the state of art these days, that discomfort sometimes leads to new vision. Perhaps you might take some time to consider the gendered-ungendered state of things which has been suggested? Because otherwise our dear moderator Estelyn Telcontar will accuse us of vile chatting and Lush will fire off more canons.  |
Much agreed, and I still await enlightenment in regards to the questions that I posed earlier in the thread. And I am not uncomfortable with the regendering of the LotR; I'm still not what we're all talking about (though, as many will note, that never hindered posting
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My lack of vision is that, try as I might (squinting now), I can only see the world through male eyes. At times I may don female spectacles, yet these are not my eyes. Over the years I've read books that I just didn't
get, yet I continued reading them anyway. Is the maleness of LotR that much of an impediment to female readers? My own brother, star quarterback, has yet to set foot out of Bree, and he's only had my books for two years now.
A gender thing? Or maybe he just doesn't get it.