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Byline: Roger Moore
NEW YORK _ In "The Lord of the Rings," Aragorn_the man who would be king_battles horde upon horde of the minions of evil while Gandalf the wizard gallops hither and yon, rallying the troops. Legolas the elf unleashes torrents of arrows on the invaders. Gimli the dwarf bloods his battle-axe, and Sam and Frodo, the hobbits, suffer and struggle and persevere.
It's a man's world, this Middle-earth of J.R.R. Tolkien.
"Tolkien created an entire world of medieval warriors and feudalistic practices in which women are not only lacking in positions of power but missing altogether," writes Raj Shoan in "The Tolkien Archives." "Other ...