Whether women at that time felt enthralled or bored with these films, which began 20 years ago this month with “The Fellowship of the Ring,” isn’t for me to say.
Through college, I met the occasional “Lord of the Rings” girl — a few friends in graduate school, and strangers on drunken nights out.
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“It’s just kind of beyond critique for me because I think I consumed it so young and because I see it, even if the movies happened recently, as like such an old, immovable work,” said Sara David, 32, an editor at Vice Media and union organizer.
Whether tween girls will enjoy these films today or develop any kind of attachment to them the way I did is up for debate. But the four women I spoke to agreed that if you want to embrace all nine hours of the “Lord of the Rings” saga, it’s easier to do so when you’re young.