Tolkien and Lewis are both products of their times & their sexism exerts itself in different ways but my favorite is how every individual Narnia book has the same number of named female characters as the entire LOTR series combined. It’s so fucking funny.
Second place goes to Lewis being deathly allergic to the concept of girls touching a sword and Tolkien just handing one to Éowyn and telling her to go fuck up the witch king
Tolkien had less girls overall but they were uniformly more liberated bc they were all based on his wife and he drank loving-my-wife juice daily meanwhile Lewis was born again so he was only allowed to legally respect a very specific type of woman
With apologies for the poor image quality and accessibility , here is an extract from a publication called “Books, Theology and Hens: the Correspondence and Friendship between Dorothy Sayers and C.S. Lewis”. (It’s available by direct download only so you’ll have to Google the title and download the pdf if you want to read it.)
A PERSON WITH HIS LIMITATIONS
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