The Green Lady and Galadrial

[jo]

[Theo]

Celeborn who? ;)

[jo]

Quite! :D

Plus if he was so wise, why didn't he wield the Ring? I wonder if it was a source of contention between them?

[Monica]

[jo]

[Glorfindel of Gondolin]

[Sven]

[David]

[jo]

[David]

Alas and alack, it sounded all too much like the swaths of feminist critic that as a literature instructor I've read through the years. Once I started to read a feminist critique of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Before I start I took out a card and said, "She'll say the following four things about it," and, sure enough, by the end of the article she had said the very four, tired, old, predictable feminist criticisms of the text. I think your statement (a joke yes) struck a chord because it reminded me of NZ critic Kath Filmer who wrote a very feminist-oriented book on Lewis called C. S. Lewis: the Mirror and the Mask. She incessant said the same sorts of things that you said (jokingly) about the Green Lady.

As for her being wise--you're right, she is not wise like a sage, wise woman, prophet or sybil. But she is so naturally good and in tune with physical and spiritual reality that a certain power akin to wisdom lodges in this.

[jo]

And she gains in wisdom throught the novel, I suppose. I liked the way that she referred to wisdom as age .. 'I feel so old now.' Old and yet young .. it was well depicted I think.

I don't have any problem with the Green Lady as a character .. I just think that she is not convincing as a woman, terribly :). She is a goddess .. an other-worldly being that it is difficult for me to relate to on any personal level.

[jo]

[Marcus_P_Hagen]

[jo]

[David]