XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.inklings, alt.christnet.theology   
   XPost: alt.christian.religion, alt.religion.christianity   
   From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   On 2018-08-15, Paul S  Person  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:37:35 +0200, Steve Hayes   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>"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   
   >   
   > Frankly, it sounds like hyper-PC tripe to me. No, I didn't read it; I   
   > am going with your summary.   
      
   This is cretinosity worthy of Twitter. Steve didn't summarize it - he   
   *quoted* a paragraph. Unsurprisingly, since Steve (and I) think it's   
   worth reading, Williams goes on to refute the criticisms he too has   
   *quoted*, and explain his view of why Tolkien is very much worth   
   reading.   
      
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