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I'm a girl, and I love adventure stories :D Just so you know there are some girls like that!
Whether you mean to or not, you do sound sexist.
I grew up reading the battered old copies of Tolkein which my mum had kept from her childhood.
(Also Milly-Molly-Mandy is aimed at a much younger audience than The Hobbit.)
Any distinction between genders is not automatically sexist, Hannah.
I grew up reading and loving Tolkein's works as well and still adore them as a young woman, and don't mind that there aren't strong female characters (I have other series for that!) but yes, the fact remains that women are more relational so yes, there is more of an appeal to boys.
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Jun 20, 2013 06:43PM
I'm a girl, and I love adventure stories :D Just so you know there are some girls like that!
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Whether you mean to or not, you do sound sexist.I grew up reading the battered old copies of Tolkein which my mum had kept from her childhood.
(Also Milly-Molly-Mandy is aimed at a much younger audience than The Hobbit.)
Nick, I think you hit it on the head; I remember those kinds of books; 'course back then it was the Bobsie Twins or whatever. But yes, I think there is a lot of the "boys adventure" about The Hobbit. Tolkien himself came from a time and a religion that did not include females in their thoughts or their day-to-day life other than as house wife, mother or maybe teacher/nurse. It does ring thru if one thinks about it, but it is not as over-whelming as in LoTR.
Nice to see I'm not the only one has read the older vintage books. :)
Nice to see I'm not the only one has read the older vintage books. :)
Any distinction between genders is not automatically sexist, Hannah.I grew up reading and loving Tolkein's works as well and still adore them as a young woman, and don't mind that there aren't strong female characters (I have other series for that!) but yes, the fact remains that women are more relational so yes, there is more of an appeal to boys.
