i do disagree about the misogyny heavily informing the text tho, unless you mean the absence of many women then yeah 100% but the women characters we do get, with the exception of arwen who was a late addition are full bodied characters with agency which is rare even today with a lot of writers
Tolkien is one of the rare people I do think deserves a bit of "by the standards of his time" credit. There's a lot of stuff in there which I am uncomfortable seeing regurgitated verbatim but I think is not terrible in context.
Compare it to Asimov's Foundation. At least Tolkien has some women in the story. Jackson still (correctly) increased their roles where he could, but at least there was something there to work with.
there’s a lot more in the Silmarillion. melian, varda, luthien, Aredhel, igwig, idril, elwing, Aerin, Nerdanel, nienna, Míriel, andreth (one of my faves), haleth to name just a few
Not counting the appendices, there's Eowyn, Galadriel, Arwen, Rosie Cotton, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins...uh...is Elrond's wife's name given at any point? I think that might be it.
I guess there's Lúthien and Elbereth and Queen Beruthiel and some other women who get mentioned as having existed in the past, but who aren't characters in the narrative. Shelob is female, at least.
