Celborn, Galdriel and Elrond

[Rosa Underhill]

Would you, Rosa, be offended?

Well, it wouldn't offend me, persay, but it would irk me. I used to not mind mention of sexual relations before marriage but lately, well, I've gotten quite tired of reading about it all the time. Anne McCaffrey, Marian Zimmer Bradley, Tamora Pierce, Jane Yolen, etc, etc. (Hm. I only have a few books written by men and those, odly are either too action oriented or Christian to have much, if anything, to do with sex. How odd...)

I've just grown extrememly weary of it. Star crossed lovers are a dime a dozen these days; now it's rare to see two married folks in a novel at all. And they've usually had "experience" beforehand. It really cheapens the love, in my mind. So, since sex-free "excapist" literature is so rare, I find that I get more pleasure reading it than other books.