What did women think of the Lord of the Rings books when they first came out?

by Zeuvembie

LOTR was really popular with college students when it hit paperback, many more women were going to college at the time, it was the blooming age of second-wave feminism...is there any record of how women responded to Tolkien's work? Fans, critics?

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