Is this true? It doesn’t tally with my observations, but I try to minimize my exposure to popular culture.
The bit about Tolkien fans would be news to the rat maiden at the too-long-idle Quenta Nârwenion.
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Is this true? It doesn’t tally with my observations, but I try to minimize my exposure to popular culture.
The bit about Tolkien fans would be news to the rat maiden at the too-long-idle Quenta Nârwenion.
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Shifting the goalposts from “first book popularity” to “final movie popularity” makes the claim basically impossible to evaluate. Even if you restricted it to the books, how is “popularity” being evaluated? Sales figures around the world won’t tell you anything, and pollsters can’t get good access to children (fortunately), so do you troll social media and guess gender on fan forums, do head-counts at cons, publicity events, and movie premieres, what?
My guess is that a lot of the supposed evidence is social-media based, which would tend to bias the results in favor of girls.
As for Tolkien, the word “overwhelmingly” just reeks of wild-assed guessing, probably based on believing that the movies are the primary source of modern fans, and that they appealed only to men because of all the fighting. (which brings to mind comments from the producers of the Highlander TV series, which de-emphasized the head-chopping when they discovered the majority of their fans were women drooling over Duncan and Methos…)
-j