The Tolkien Fan: male or female - Page 2

Lalaith · 04-11-2003, 01:52 PM

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And my picture of the average Tolkien fan is now becoming a quiet bookish girl who likes horses and nature and is passionate about her Tolkien books. And the age range seems to be 13-aging hippie.

Well thanks. That describes me exactly (isn't that ironic, don't you think), lol

Insidious Rex · 04-11-2003, 03:48 PM

Heres this thread! Ive been looking for this. And yes quite ironic Lalaith The Black Sheep.

Although I dont remember you saying anything about horses before....

Aralyn · 04-11-2003, 03:58 PM

I guess we're finding all the 13 year old horse-tolkien-bookish types

I'm female and the 'moot is the only place I find Tolkien fans! Isn't that crazy? No one I know likes Tolkien. They think he's wierd or aren't in to fantasy. There is one girl down the street who likes Tolkien but mostly the movies.

Of course where I live I have a reputation as a book person and a freak so I don't have to worry about tarnishing my rep by reading LOTR etc.

sun-star · 04-12-2003, 05:03 AM

I'm female, a teenager (probably a better guess for typical age than 13) and obviously bookish. I never read fantasy apart from Tolkien though, and most of the fantasy fans I've met are male. Sort of like the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons

Lalaith · 04-12-2003, 05:53 AM

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Heres this thread! Ive been looking for this. And yes quite ironic Lalaith The Black Sheep. Although I dont remember you saying anything about horses before....

And guess what, me the Black Sheep, isn't a girlie anymore. Today is the day. hahaha
Now I'm an andult Black Sheep. Hihihi. And I'm not fond of horses.

Elvellyn · 04-12-2003, 12:19 PM

Happy birthday, Lalaith!

I had been meaning to post in this thread before.

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Originally posted by Insidious Rex
And my picture of the average Tolkien fan is now becoming a quiet bookish girl who likes horses and nature and is passionate about her Tolkien books. And the age range seems to be 13-aging hippie.

I pretty much fit this.
quiet...at times
bookish...yes
girl...yes
horses...sure why not
nature...yes
13...yes

Oh joy, I'm a stereotype.

Lalaith · 04-13-2003, 05:11 AM

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Happy birthday, Lalaith!

Thanks.

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Oh joy, I'm a stereotype.

Elenka · 04-13-2003, 09:38 AM

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Originally posted by Insidious Rex
...And my picture of the average Tolkien fan is now becoming a quiet bookish girl who likes horses and nature and is passionate about her Tolkien books. And the age range seems to be 13-aging hippie. So am I just over generalizing here or are there really significantly more pure Tolkien fans that are female then male now?

Funny. Your description reminds me strongly of ... me. Quiet...most of the time. Bookish...They call me the Bookworm. Horses...yep, for better or for worse, I suppose. Passionate about her Tolkien books...I threatened to burn Jen's copy of Harry Potter & TSS if she insulted Tolkien again. I was going to follow through on it, but she stopped bringing 'em to school. Age: 13. Yep, you've got me covered.

Insidious Rex · 04-13-2003, 12:34 PM

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Originally posted by Elvellyn
I pretty much fit this.
quiet...at times
bookish...yes
girl...yes
horses...sure why not
nature...yes
13...yes

Oh joy, I'm a stereotype.

See! Now dont you feel special Elvellyn! Uh wait....

Lalaith · 04-13-2003, 05:11 PM

He has changed his title ... finally!

Sorry, off-topic!

Sminty_Smeagol · 04-13-2003, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by Insidious Rex
And my picture of the average Tolkien fan is now becoming a quiet bookish girl who likes horses and nature and is passionate about her Tolkien books. And the age range seems to be 13-aging hippie.

quiet- yes, but only cuz i'm antisocial and am not interested in talking to most people

bookish- No, I hate to read lately... used to be moderately bookish. If I get involved enough in a book, I can read it in a day without eating or sleeping. Tolkien's books are somewhat harder to get involved in for me.

likes horses- THINGS WITH RECTANGULAR BAR PUPILS SCARE ME! things with hooves have rectangular pupils. Me and horses don't mix anyways.

nature- well I would like to become emotionally attatched to nature, however, there isn't enough nature in my neighborhood lol I would love to spend some time in a woods becoming acquainted with the trees though. I'm sure they're better company than most humans.

I'm probably not a typical tolkien fan, but I'm not a typical anything. People think I'm gothic

, but if you crammed me in that little genre, I wouldn't be a typical goth at all.

Insidious, do you think I'm the typical tolkien fan?

Insidious Rex · 04-13-2003, 06:33 PM

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Originally posted by Sminty_Smeagol

Insidious, do you think I'm the typical tolkien fan?

Sminty yer not the typical anything. but thats what i like about you hun. by the way yer asocial not antisocial. well that thing about hitting people with sticks was antisocial but overall yer asocial. keep it up.

Elvellyn · 04-13-2003, 06:44 PM

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Originally posted by Insidious Rex
Sminty yer not the typical anything. but thats what i like about you hun. by the way yer asocial not antisocial. well that thing about hitting people with sticks was antisocial but overall yer asocial. keep it up.

"hun"? I didn't think upstaters were allowed to say "hun".

Well, I thought about it, and I'm not everybody's stereotypical Tolkien fan; just IR's. That makes me feel a little better.

Sminty_Smeagol · 04-13-2003, 06:53 PM

lol yeah... i imagine different types of people have different stereotypes of tolkien fans. Most of them (the outsiders... people who aren't tolkien fans) seem to consider us "geeks" or something (well, not like thats a bad thing!). But since the movies, it seems like a lot of people associate tolkien with gothic ness. I know a lot of tolkien fans who are goths, and a LOT of goths who are fans of lotr (esp the movies).

Insidious Rex · 04-13-2003, 08:49 PM

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Originally posted by Elenka
Funny. Your description reminds me strongly of ... me. Quiet...most of the time. Bookish...They call me the Bookworm. Horses...yep, for better or for worse, I suppose. Passionate about her Tolkien books...I threatened to burn Jen's copy of Harry Potter & TSS if she insulted Tolkien again. I was going to follow through on it, but she stopped bringing 'em to school. Age: 13. Yep, you've got me covered.

Elenka you are the typical Tolkien fan but you definitely have an edge hun. Maybe yer the typical Tolkien fan with enough angst for 8 people.

Insidious Rex · 04-13-2003, 08:55 PM

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Originally posted by Elvellyn
"hun"? I didn't think upstaters were allowed to say "hun".

Well, I thought about it, and I'm not everybody's stereotypical Tolkien fan; just IR's. That makes me feel a little better.

hey I hunned elenka too so there. And Im glad it makes you feel better that you aspire to be my image of the ultimate Tolkien fan.

***RÃan*** · 04-14-2003, 01:28 AM

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Originally posted by crickhollow
For my part (and I am female, btw, for those of you who are still confused), I love Tolkien not because it is Fantasy, but because it is great literature. I'm not into Rpgs, or Starwars--I love Dickens, Macdonald, Lewis, and Austin. So I guess I fit your classification, markedel.

Exactly my feelings! (pass that Austen over here!) (and be sure and get to Dickens' Bleak House this year, crick!) But Tolkien affects me in a much deeper way than those other wonderful authors.

BTW, I was once 13, and I still am female, bookish, quiet, and love horses! Nature is beautiful, but I"m definitely NOT a PETA/Greenpeace type.

Lief Erikson · 04-14-2003, 01:44 AM

I haven't read any Dickens or George Macdonald besides Lilith, I think. I enjoyed Lilith. Is "At the Back of the North Wind" by George Macdonald as well?

As for Jane Austin and C.S. Lewis, I really like their writing

. I've only read "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austin, but I've seen many of the movie adaptations of her works and enjoyed them a lot. C.S. Lewis I primarily admire for his theology books, but I also enjoyed the Narnia series

. Perhaps they weren't quite as advanced in terms of writing style as would have given me more full enjoyment of them, but I liked them all the same.

Meanwhile . . . Star Wars and RPGs rule!

Can't agree with you two there

. On Star Wars, there's probably no hope for you, but with RPGs, I think it's doubtful that any of you have played any really, really good RPGs before. They can be really enjoyable, though me and several of my friends in the RPG forum have specific tastes in RPGs that we tend to taylor our RPGs to satisfy.

Fantasy, like RPGs, has a lot of them which aren't so splendid. I tend to go for specific authors, and after reading all of their books I just be sad

.

Insidious Rex · 04-14-2003, 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by RÃ*an
[i]BTW, I was once 13, and I still am female, bookish, quiet, and love horses! Nature is beautiful, but I"m definitely NOT a PETA/Greenpeace type.

well thats close enough. so theres not even a little bit of hippie in you at all RÃ*an?

Lalaith · 04-14-2003, 12:32 PM

What's the stereotype of a male reader?

04-11-2003, 03:48 PM	#22
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Heres this thread! Ive been looking for this. And yes quite ironic Lalaith The Black Sheep. Although I dont remember you saying anything about horses before.... __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

04-11-2003, 03:58 PM	#23
Aralyn FloraAzul Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Anywhere as long as there is a library in a one mile radius of here Posts: 751	I guess we're finding all the 13 year old horse-tolkien-bookish types I'm female and the 'moot is the only place I find Tolkien fans! Isn't that crazy? No one I know likes Tolkien. They think he's wierd or aren't in to fantasy. There is one girl down the street who likes Tolkien but mostly the movies. Of course where I live I have a reputation as a book person and a freak so I don't have to worry about tarnishing my rep by reading LOTR etc. __________________ Atheism: A Non-Prophet Organization Yet many shall be amazed when they see Him-yes even far off foreign nations and thier kings; they shall stand dumb-founded, speechless in his prescence. For they shall see and understand what they had not seen before-Isaiah 52:15a Civil War- 498,332 dead WWI-116,708 dead WWII-407,316 dead Korean War-54,246 dead Vietnam War-58,665 dead Persian Gulf-372 dead War on The Unborn=35,000,000 dead and counting

04-12-2003, 05:03 AM	#24
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I'm female, a teenager (probably a better guess for typical age than 13) and obviously bookish. I never read fantasy apart from Tolkien though, and most of the fantasy fans I've met are male. Sort of like the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

04-13-2003, 05:11 PM	#30
Lalaith The Elvish Temptress Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 3,055	He has changed his title ... finally! Sorry, off-topic! __________________ What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead.

04-14-2003, 12:32 PM	#40
Lalaith The Elvish Temptress Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 3,055	What's the stereotype of a male reader? __________________ What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead.

04-13-2003, 06:53 PM	#34
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	lol yeah... i imagine different types of people have different stereotypes of tolkien fans. Most of them (the outsiders... people who aren't tolkien fans) seem to consider us "geeks" or something (well, not like thats a bad thing!). But since the movies, it seems like a lot of people associate tolkien with gothic ness. I know a lot of tolkien fans who are goths, and a LOT of goths who are fans of lotr (esp the movies).

04-14-2003, 01:44 AM	#38
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	I haven't read any Dickens or George Macdonald besides Lilith, I think. I enjoyed Lilith. Is "At the Back of the North Wind" by George Macdonald as well? As for Jane Austin and C.S. Lewis, I really like their writing . I've only read "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austin, but I've seen many of the movie adaptations of her works and enjoyed them a lot. C.S. Lewis I primarily admire for his theology books, but I also enjoyed the Narnia series . Perhaps they weren't quite as advanced in terms of writing style as would have given me more full enjoyment of them, but I liked them all the same. Meanwhile . . . Star Wars and RPGs rule! Can't agree with you two there . On Star Wars, there's probably no hope for you, but with RPGs, I think it's doubtful that any of you have played any really, really good RPGs before. They can be really enjoyable, though me and several of my friends in the RPG forum have specific tastes in RPGs that we tend to taylor our RPGs to satisfy. Fantasy, like RPGs, has a lot of them which aren't so splendid. I tend to go for specific authors, and after reading all of their books I just be sad .

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