Clélie :)'s List: Tolkien

• Anne NICOLLET, La symbolique féminine dans Le Seigneur des  Anneaux de J.R.R. Tolkien et La Tétralogie de Wagner  (maîtrise, Pau, 1995)
  
• Thomas GUILLUY, Challenging the Feminist Approach:  Tolkien's Female Entities as Inspiration and their Mythical Idealisation  (Maîtrise, Université Catholique d'Angers, 2004)
  
• Claire COULON, Man in Tolkien's The lord of the rings  (maîtrise Reims, 1992)

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• Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger and Patrick Curry

• Although some critics have alleged that The Lord of the Rings  relegates women to the background, I have always seen Tolkien as being rather  advanced for his time in his depiction of women. Eowyn, the lady of Rohan who  sneaks off to be a warrior certainly is no shrinking violet. As for Galadriel:  although her scenes are not lengthy in comparison with say, Gandalf's, her  presence lingers for many chapters after the characters have left Lorièn. What  is your opinion on this subject: how did Professor Tolkien feel about Galadriel?  About Eowyn?
  
  I can only point to the scene in "The Houses of  Healing," where there is a careful and sensitive account of what it must have  been like for Eowyn, not only trapped at home while the men rode off to war, but  trapped with Wormtongue, and watching her uncle fall under his spell. This is a  striking and early sensitivity to the theme of female passivity, which people  often miss.

• The broken sword : a forbidden  love?
• The Lord of the Nazgûls’ arch-nemesis: a woman: 

• Eowyn who represents the potential of rebellion against the male value system
• Eowyn has to broadcast her gender
• have to take on male characteristics in order to overcome the evil of the Lord  of the Ringwraiths
• women must become men and enter the world of men that is 'war' in "The Lord of  the Rings" for Eowyn, and Venice for Portia; to defeat the evil of men
• the ordered world of women
• Edoras
• a subversion of this cultural norm
• the potential of women in such a rigid patriarchal world to trick men and be  able to achieve the same, if not greater glory than their male counterparts.
  
• The Lord of the Rings" the role of child to parent is closely partitioned,  though made rather vague by the complex genealogies between characters
• the Hobbits and their mannerisms are much like our own
• social and racial differences are overcome when the interests and freedoms of  each are threatened by invasion

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• Weinreich, Frank & Thomas Honegger (eds.) Tolkien and  Modernity
  
• "Against Stereotype:Éowyn and Lúthien as 20th-Century Women", Maria Raffaella  Benvenuto
  "Politically Incorrect:Tolkien, Women, and Feminism", Laura Michel  
  
• "Tolkien on Love. Concepts of ‘Love’ in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the  Rings", Patrick Brueckner
  

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• Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C. S. Lewis, J.R.R.  Tolkien, and Charles Williams

• Varda is the closest equivalent in Middle Earth to the Queen of Heaven
• Both Yavanna and the Blessed Virgin are given tree-like attributes
• without them, the work of the male heroes would becoem extra difficult or even  impossible
• When Manwë has Varda by his side, he can see more clearly
• Ossë needs Uinen to restrain his wild personality. Melian protected Thingol's  kingdom of Doriath with her power. Beren needed Luthien to capture the Silmaril

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