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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7747824" data-attributes="member: 6873517"><p>Yeah, I agree. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Huh. </p><p></p><p>I'm not sure I'd really say LotR was the (edit)primary inspiration of Gygax and pals. He pretty well stated that it wasn't and stated what influenced him, most notably Poul Anderson, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, and Michael Moorcock, among others. Undoubtedly the popularity of LotR helped D&D sell in the '70s, though. Thirty years later, the LotR movies played a huge role in opening things up from being a mostly male niche hobby to a much broader audience. </p><p></p><p>For a man of his time and for being a Christian conservative---remember he died nearly fifty years ago and started work on the Legendarium essentially a century(!) ago---JRRT is downright progressive on matters of gender. Eowyn is a independent woman whose accomplishments speak for themselves. She's not a main character, but is a key supporting character in both <em>The Two Towers</em> and <em>Return of the King</em>. Arwen is a missed opportunity, but that that's partly due to the fact that she and Aragorn were very late additions to LotR. While she didn't appear directly in LotR, <a href="https://www.tor.com/2016/09/14/luthien-tolkiens-badass-elf-princess/" target="_blank">Luthien</a> is a case study in female empowerment. </p><p></p><p>The homoerotic parts... I doubt JRRT intended them but instead was drawing on his experiences of the intense camaraderie that often occur in combat units. Like many other men of his generation, he was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvVh-DVhroQ" target="_blank">a soldier in World War I.</a> So you may interpret them that way but I don't really think they're there in the author's mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7747824, member: 6873517"] Yeah, I agree. Huh. I'm not sure I'd really say LotR was the (edit)primary inspiration of Gygax and pals. He pretty well stated that it wasn't and stated what influenced him, most notably Poul Anderson, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, and Michael Moorcock, among others. Undoubtedly the popularity of LotR helped D&D sell in the '70s, though. Thirty years later, the LotR movies played a huge role in opening things up from being a mostly male niche hobby to a much broader audience. For a man of his time and for being a Christian conservative---remember he died nearly fifty years ago and started work on the Legendarium essentially a century(!) ago---JRRT is downright progressive on matters of gender. Eowyn is a independent woman whose accomplishments speak for themselves. She's not a main character, but is a key supporting character in both [I]The Two Towers[/I] and [I]Return of the King[/I]. Arwen is a missed opportunity, but that that's partly due to the fact that she and Aragorn were very late additions to LotR. While she didn't appear directly in LotR, [URL="https://www.tor.com/2016/09/14/luthien-tolkiens-badass-elf-princess/"]Luthien[/URL] is a case study in female empowerment. The homoerotic parts... I doubt JRRT intended them but instead was drawing on his experiences of the intense camaraderie that often occur in combat units. Like many other men of his generation, he was [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvVh-DVhroQ"]a soldier in World War I.[/URL] So you may interpret them that way but I don't really think they're there in the author's mind. [/QUOTE]
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