Her full name was Victoria Sackville-West, so even more like Lobelia.
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That makes so much sense!! Wow the world of lit is just so wonderfully small! And Tolkien would’ve known about her and her lack of inheritance?
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Yes, she was very well-known. I would think he would have known her personally, anyway; they lived in a small world. But even if not, her life was reported in newspapers of the time.
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Virginia Woolf's lover. Bad Tolkien.
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So in Tolkien's world, women can either be on a pedestal (Galadriel, Arwen), sexist caricatures (Rosie, Lobelia), tokens (Eowyn) or monsters (Shelob)...
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I don't know why you would say it's misogynistic. I would say it's just satire. True, she was outted from her land inheritance, but he probably didn't think it was worth a lifetime of bitterness and some of her literature probably rubbed him the wrong way.
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