Tolkien- For the Love of Eowyn!

[Lalaith]

Middle- earth is basically set in a time where society was dominated by the male. Just this simple often mentioned piece of evidence should therefore make all the accustaions false.
If only people had the brains to see that

Blimey, you're a bit sure of yourself, aren't you! So what was Galadriel doing with one of the three rings? Why didn't she meekly hand it over to her lord and master, Celeborn?

Societies should not be judged based on others' values. They shouldn't be judged at all

Hmmm...the moral relativism argument is a bit of a dodgy one...are you saying that we shouldn't judge Nazi Germany, for example, based on our own values that gassing Jews is wrong?

Nothing could ever change the fact that the two are fundamentally different.

The amazing, fanastic thing about the human race is that we are all different. Pigeonholing people into rigid roles according to what someone else has decreed appropriate for their gender, or height, or skin colour, or whatever, rather than allowing them to flourish according to their own personal skills and talents, tends to make them miserable. Like Eowyn.