Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

10 reviews

judassilver's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Death, Genocide, Grief, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, and Gore

Minor: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

squinnittowinit's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

My least favorite of the three parts. The main story ends less than halfway through, and what should be an epilogue takes up the rest. I didn't find anything they did particularly interesting compared to the movie version.

Tolkien's writing continues to provide very little emotion or depth, so Andy Serkis as the narrator does a lot of heavy lifting with his voice acting. But it was not enough to make this book enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Confinement, War, Racism, and Violence

parenthesis_enjoyer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

this was a perfect conclusion to the trilogy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Xenophobia, Grief, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Misogyny, Abandonment, and Sexism

Minor: Alcohol and Classism

bexi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

This is probably the best book from the trilogly (yes I know it's technically one book, please don't come for me Tolkein stans). 

Might bump this up to 4.5 stars later, I still can't make up my mind 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Violence, Suicide, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death and Slavery

gendercrisis's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Body shaming, Blood, and Death

dlrosebyh's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

this is definitely the best book i read in the trilogy. it was just okay. it had so much potential, the build-up was great, but the battle sequence was not very climactic as i expected it to be.

i was expecting arwen to appear, but she didn’t. if she did, i’d have probably gave it more than 3 stars. and the love triangle ? a big no.

the ending was very bittersweet, and i thought it could be better. i’m sad that i’ll leave these characters behind, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, and Racial slurs

jonsnowsmanbun's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Misogyny

osomo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

Some parts that I wished were longer were short, while the parts I wished were shorter were long.
Also, obvious racist undertones.

I do appreciate though that after the war ended, we saw the problems the characters faced. Somehow, most of them weren’t too affected though. Except Frodo who had a major trauma. The rest acted like they just had fun and no struggles. I don’t dig that illusory romanticised vision of the consequences of war, or the lack thereof.

P. S. Sam is love, Galadriel is life.
Unfortunately though, Galadriel is the only woman with proper power and agency in this story.

I think, the cast is not diverse. Yet the ideologies and the philosophies they represent are varied, which is interesting to pay attention to. 

Even though I loved Sam and others, in the end I was disappointed with racism expressed by hobbits (and overall in the book).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, and Sexism

itwassomethingabout's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Misogyny, and Sexism

readandfindout's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

Style/writing: 4.5 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Characters: 4.5 stars
Plot: 4 stars
Worldbuilding: 5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Racism