Comments on: Do women love ‘The Hobbit’? NYTimes says no

By: Kenobi1985

Kenobi1985 — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:12:00 +0000

Where do people get off making statements like that? It’s insulting to fans and not-prior-to-the-movies fans alike (of either gender) to the nth degree. When will people quit trying to speak for everyone else, especially without first soliciting our opinion on the matter, whether they are reporters or pundits or politicians?

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 14 May 2011 04:01:00 +0000

I’m a male, but I was introduced to Tolkein when I was 6 years old by the high school girl down the street. She would read it (The Hobbit) to my younger siblings and I when she would babysit us. Thanks to Laura for beginning my lifelong love of fantasy in general and Tolkein in particular!

By: Teknosugar

Teknosugar — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:33:00 +0000

The book club I belong to, and is all women in eir 20′s and 30′s quite happily chose and read the Hobbit… Seeing as I own no less than 4 copies and it was the first book I bought my daughter (1st born). I think that the review is very wrong. If anyone is the nerd/geek/ Tolkienite in this house it is me, a woman. Just because fantasy is stereotypically something the men enjoy, does not mean that there isn’t a large contingent of us ladies out there who do not enjoy it as well, if not more than our male counterparts… Well it does in my case

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:36:00 +0000

I was never introduced to that. Maybe it is still hiding within me. I was never taught that exercising my imagination is *wrong*.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:33:00 +0000

I am not reading anything in the fantasy genre. I never have. The same goes for science fiction. I don’t remember which website led me to this one. I surf a lot and I want to learn.

By: spatch

spatch — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:31:00 +0000

And when you consider that vast sections of A Song of Ice and Fire are written from the female characters POV, Ms. Bellafante’s assertions become ridiculous and, in the end, moot.

By: spatch

spatch — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:31:00 +0000

And when you consider that vast sections of A Song of Ice and Fire are written from the female characters POV, Ms. Bellafante’s assertions become ridiculous and, in the end, moot.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:17:00 +0000

Brava!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:12:00 +0000

Hear, hear. I resent the idea that all of us sit around watching Twilight while painting “I love Romeo” on our wee toenails.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:10:00 +0000

Nice to know that one lone broad thinks she speaks for Womenkind. I suppose that the thousands of women on Tolkien fanpages don’t exist?

By: Amber Knox

Amber Knox — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:04:00 +0000

My Dad read me The Hobbit when I was five years old, and I loved it so much I asked him to read it to me again. He said no, next time I’d have to read it for myself. Thanks to a deep and abiding love for Tolkien’s world, I was reading fluently by the first grade, and I have read and reread The Hobbit, LOTR, and/or The Silmarillion every year since. (And devoured lots of other books on the way.) I’m now in my 30′s and I can attest that Chicks Dig Tolkien.

By: Amber Knox

Amber Knox — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:04:00 +0000