🐱 For Millennial Women, How Did ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Become ‘Star Wars’?

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The Lord of the Rings film trilogy serves the same purpose for millennial women that Star Wars did for those who grew up in the late 1970s and early 1980s: For women in their late twenties and thirties, it’s become a cherished element of the comfort-watch genre.

Rewatching the films seemed like a ritual that only my sister and I observed in the years after they were released. (My parents saw them in cinemas with us and then never saw them again.) I encountered the rare “Lord of the Rings” female throughout college — a few pals in graduate school and random strangers on drunken nights out. There were also the memes and the accounts that accompanied them.

However, a few years ago, I started noticing stories in journals like The Cut and others. The narrator asks, “Well what about your Boromir Lady?” “I’m always on the lookout for Sauron.” “‘The Fellowship of the Ring,’ The Lord of the Rings: My Lord of the Rings,’ Is the Best Christmas Movie.”

Gabriella Paiella, 32, a cultural journalist for GQ and a former staff writer at The Cut, stated, “We all liked ‘Lord of the Rings.'” “That bolstered my concept there was a distinctly feminine fascination in these films that I hadn’t explored before since the ‘Lord of the Rings universe is sort of conceived of as a nerdy masculine preoccupation,” says the author.

While jokes and memes were still a great way for fans to connect, Paiella and other women who grew up during the Lord of the Rings era say their love for the films is far deeper and more personal. “Don’t you know your Sam?” “I remember your face,” and “I would have followed you, my brother, my commander, my king,” are just a few of the film’s most devastating, Howard Shore-backed moments.

“The overall concept of this tale is that achievement or victory is still possible if you love and respect each other,” Han explained. “It’s theoretically a dark fantasy quest, but I don’t think it has the same level of manhood and power many of these narratives.

 

[Roast Chicken]

As a millenial woman, I never liked Star Wars or Lord of The Rings. I only sat through the LoTR films because my family wanted to watch them.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

Because Vigo Mortensen is hot, a LOT of fujoshits original OTPs were Frodo and Sam, and most women dont lead an interesting enough life or are interesting enough to let go of their teenage fantasies.

 

[CircuSphere]

This is such bullshit. I have never met a woman who actually likes LOTR. Some that can 'tolerate it' maybe. I remember my Mom thinking it was the most boring movie ever made.

Say it with me Bezos "No matter how much I spend on propaganda it will not make woke LOTR a success." Okay, now again....

 

[Ser Prize]

As a millenial woman

I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[T0oCoolFool]

This is such bullshit. I have never met a woman who actually likes LOTR. Some that can 'tolerate it' maybe. I remember my Mom thinking it was the most boring movie ever made.

Say it with me Bezos "No matter how much I spend on propaganda it will not make woke LOTR a success." Okay, now again....

Yeah, I mean I watched the movies and liked them I guess, but I didn't love them enough to go sit through them again and I didn't get the hype. Certainly didn't care enough to read the massive novels.

I remember the men in my friend and family group gushing over it, while me and the other women really only cared about how hot and dreamy Legolas was. I couldn't tell you any of the other names (Besides Frodo and Gandalf) and tbh I can't really remember what the movies were about, besides the overall plot line of destroying the ring.

The main thing I remember from the movies is the few popular meme'd scenes, and the ending, where all the hobbits were jumping on the bed with whats-his-name and Legolas smiling. And I only remember that scene because it seemed really freaking gay, so it was unintentionally funny.

I know there are some geeky girls that genuinely love LOTR. They cosplay the characters, write fan fiction, know all the lore, etc. But there's very few of them. This author claiming there is an increase in female viewership sounds like bs. Unless she's counting troons. Then it would make perfect sense why there is suddenly a growing ""female"" interest in the series.

 

[White Girl]

I’ve red the series, watched the first trilogy, refuse to watch the hobbit and Amazon shitshow. Nothing is ruined if I refuse to believe they exist.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I am an early millennial. I never seen Star Wars, or more like, I couldn't sit through the whole movie(s). But I love Spaceballs and have watched it a bunch of times. It is sort of like Harry Potter, I just can't get into it and wander off. Only Star Wars thing that I did actually watch was The Mandalorian and that wasn't even one of the movies.

I did like LoTR though and saw all three movies at least twice in theaters because again, I am old. I just liked the books and the movies. I don't think I watched them though since probably 2004. I don't get into those kinds of fandoms.

This is such bullshit. I have never met a woman who actually likes LOTR. Some that can 'tolerate it' maybe. I remember my Mom thinking it was the most boring movie ever made.

Well that's interesting. LoTR was one of my grandmother's favorite book series. She died before when the movies came out so never saw them, but she probably would have liked them if she lived to see them.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Because Vigo Mortensen is hot, a LOT of fujoshits original OTPs were Frodo and Sam, and most women dont lead an interesting enough life or are interesting enough to let go of their teenage fantasies.

I mean, I ain't that smart - But I would assume that most women don't want to see two hairy manlets in dirty rags jack each other off on a mountain top, but that's just me.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

I mean, I ain't that smart - But I would assume that most women don't want to see two hairy manlets in dirty rags jack each other off on a mountain top, but that's just me.

Sounds like breadtubers debating.

 

[mate]

When 'I'm not like the other girls' means you have a disgusting pair of hobbit feet...

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Because Vigo Mortensen is hot, a LOT of fujoshits original OTPs were Frodo and Sam, and most women dont lead an interesting enough life or are interesting enough to let go of their teenage fantasies.

Don't forget Orlando Bloom.

 

[frozenrunner]

LOTR seems like it would be enjoyed by women just like the Three Stooges, meaning not at all because they don't "get it".

"Frodo and Sam have to be gay, right?"

 

[CharlesBarkley]

"Frodo and Sam have to be gay, right?"

Well, there is that one scene in the book where Frodo fingers Sam's O-ring and turns him invisible due to the ring being inside his anus. Corrupted with power and vile magic, Sam then proceeds to then be unable to stop his gay man lust and impregnates Legolas in a dramatic, yet a touching moment.

100% lonely girl writing, for sure , but it was quite progressive back in J.R.R Tolkiens day or whatever.

 

[Getting tard comed]

What is an advertisement for Amazon for 250 Alex?

 

[Absolutego]

I’ve red the series, watched the first trilogy, refuse to watch the hobbit and Amazon shitshow. Nothing is ruined if I refuse to believe they exist.

The Hobbit trilogy is a fascinating example of how a rushed schedule, stupid studio mandates, and a director nobody's willing to say "no" to anymore can ruin a film with a lot of potential, but I can't fault you for not watching it.

 

[The Ugly One]

Why is this good movie trilogy from your teen/young adult years popular with your generation the way a good movie trilogy from from Gen X's teen/young adult years is with Gen X? The world will never know.

 

[GarthVader]

Read the Silmarillion bitch, otherwise you're just looking for bean flicking material.

 

[Mr_Sam_Bones]

There's a subsect of retarded, semi-influential women in online media and academia claiming that LOTR, especially the movies, are very "queer." Nobody cares about that shit other than unfucked blue-haired literature and film students. Bezos is probably shuttling those ugly bitches into the spotlight using his big amazon cock rocket so that normies see the "queer" perspective first when they google lord of the rings. Why would Bezos do that? Because they want to sell LOTR to gays and blacks and women (aka people with no taste and no discernment) and because they can use the "queer BIPOC wahmen" perspective to deflect criticism and bad reviews coming from the only people who can sit in front of the screen for half an hour without suspending every bit of critical thinkin and disbelief they have in their mind (read: not faggoty men)

 

[The Southwest Strangla]

This is such bullshit. I have never met a woman who actually likes LOTR. Some that can 'tolerate it' maybe. I remember my Mom thinking it was the most boring movie ever made.

Say it with me Bezos "No matter how much I spend on propaganda it will not make woke LOTR a success." Okay, now again....

I never met a woman who liked Star Wars. People are trying to make anything they see as “geek” culture into something political.