"Great Books" that no one seems to like...what are we missing?

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@kitap, @DrDeth, @Princhester, et al: to avoid hijacking this thread further, I’ve started a new thread to discuss Tolkien and women if anyone wants to continue this discussion:

Tolkien and women

Continued from thread “Great Books” that no one seems to like… to avoid hijacking that thread further: I don’t know whether Tolkien was familiar with either of those works, but they’re not the same kind of thing he was writing. The tradition Tolkien was writing in was not one with a lot of strong, active female characters. The Oz books actually are a good example of fantasy fiction with strong, powerful female characters (and this was deliberate on Baum’s part); but, again, if Tolkien even r…