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I’m old and tried re-reading it recently and the low number of female characters and voices is really jarring now. YMMV. There’s so much I haven’t yet read I
by stevenwoo 3y ago
I’m old and tried re-reading it recently and the low number of female characters and voices is really jarring now. YMMV. There’s so much I haven’t yet read I just moved on.
- slibhb 3y ago[flagged]
- defrost 3y agoThat's exactly right Bertie, the University of Oxford Literary circles famously consisted of nothing but straight white school chums who gathered together to butter crumpets placed in toast racks while talking at length of fairies and such things. Such well adjusted literary Dons were incapable of writing coded tales of unspoken love.
- astrange 3y agoNot a very close reading there! Frodo lives with his committed bachelor uncle who's famous for collecting outfits, he goes on a journey with his male best friend, they actually kiss 4-5 times (on the hand and forehead), they move in together at the end and Frodo never marries or has children. …And the narration calls Bilbo and Frodo "queer" several times and goes on about them comforting each other in their sleep in Mordor. (Yes that word meant the same thing it does now, and yes he knew what it meant.)
- morelisp 3y agoI agree with the sibling commenter that Bilbo is very gay-coded, to the point I cannot imagine it to be an accident, but even explicitly within the text - https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FE5bMUoIXoAAAo9I.png https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FE5bMUoIXoAAAo9I.png
- stevenwoo 3y agoI have fond memories of reading this when I was a teenager, it's a pretty grand story and universe. To further elucidate and paraphrase what other commenters have said about the other article posted about reading, it's just not what I am ready to read now.