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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   "So, how do we now respond to Tolkien’s imagined world, a world that   
   is hierarchical, notoriously short on female agents, and which was   
   accused by the poet Edwin Muir of being populated exclusively by   
   different-sized schoolboys? As with Lewis, the complaint about implied   
   misogyny is regularly coupled with worries about racial stereotyping,   
   the romanticising of violence and the reduction of moral issues to   
   cosmic battles between absolutes."   
      
      
   This article by an Anglican bishop and academic is worth reading.   
      
   https://t.co/nQ5cQYg8NB   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
   Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm   
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