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Perilous and Fair Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien Liz Climo From the first brick toBy: Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie A. Donovan Published by Mythopoeic Press, 2015 Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien's fiction has nothing useful or modern to say about women, Perilous and Fair focuses critical attention on views that interpret women