Epic Fantasy and the Bechdel Test

For a while now I've been meaning to write about and thus making odd notes about the subject:

How much epic fantasy passes the Bechdel Test? All, most, some, little?

This isn't that post. I mean, not the one I may eventually write about the roles of women in epic fantasy.

The Bechdel Test (or Bechdel/Wallace Test), by the way, was originally devised for film and goes like this:

a film passed the Bechdel Test if

1) It has at least two women in it,
2) Who talk to each other,
3) About something besid...