All I'd like to say is, if Lord of the Rings is a "boy's book" then why are so many Lord of the Rings fans around the world female? Why, you ask? It's because reading the books gives us hope (at least it gives me hope) that I don't have to be a 6-foot 180-pound man to accomplish anything. I can be a woman, and still become one of the greatest heroes of this world. Just look at Eowyn. If she isn't a hero, then I don't know who is. Look at Galadriel, and at all the Elves. They remained behind out of free will and love of Middle-earth to make sure that this evil was overthrown. That, in my mind is a hero. We are given so many ideals to look up to and emulate, that it is impossible to delineate Lord of the Rings as just a boy's book or just a girl's book. Each person, regardless of whether they are a boy, a girl, or an adult, comes away from reading it, a different person, with a different gem of knowledge.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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12-19-2003, 09:02 AM
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