Can the book be considered rascist?

[Kalessin]

Erm ...

When Tolien wrote LotR and the Sil women had different roles than they do now. In fact, you could say he created the role of a strong, independant woman in literature

Sorry but have to disagree. "Strong independent women in literature" had been around for a while before Tolkien. That includes strong independent women authors, too. In fact, you can go right back to pre-Christian Irish mythology, for example, to find many powerful female characters.

As far as "different roles" go, I'm not sure. In the years that Tolkien was writing LotR, the women of England were making munitions in factories, and fighting undercover in France in the SOE.

Tolkien's work is precisely nostalgic (by his own admission) and evokes a sense of roles and responsibilities for women that are in the main positively medieval [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Fortunately, that doesn't stop LotR being a great book [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

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