# Tolkien and Sex

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-and-sex/485739>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 13, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-and-sex/485739 "2009-02-13T20:51:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-and-sex/485739/21 "2009-02-15T01:05:07Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> It really spoils the Ents for me…as does the Scouring of the Shire spoile some things for me. I understand Tolkien had a point in both cases but they both seem pretty tacked-on to me. Oh, I wrote this huge fantasy novel, better stick in a moral lesson and shut them all up.

The Ents may have been an element that just popped up, like Strider. But he does explicitly state somewhere that he foresaw the scouring from the beginning, so it wasn’t just tacked on.

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-and-sex/485739/22 "2009-02-15T01:15:27Z")

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The thing about the Scouring is that it’s the one part of this whole soaring, high-fantasy, cosmically important journey that brings it all back to your basic English village and therefore back to the expected reader.

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