[Errata] Biographie de Humphrey Carpenter

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La traduction a beau s'écarter du texte, l'esprit n'est pas si loin. Plusieurs chercheurs ont déjà pointé que les Inklings considéraient que leur amitié masculine était gênée par les femmes. Je cite Adam Roberts (A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 475) :

In all this, Tolkien was a product of his time generally, and of his literary peergroup the Inklings in particular (see chs. 1 and 22). (...). Elaine Good (2002, 285) notes:

Lewis’s statement to friend Bede Griffith that “The decay of friendship, owing to the endless presence of women everywhere, is a thing I’m rather afraid of,” perhaps best exemplifies the fundamental feeling of the Inklings that the bonds between men are weakened by the presence of women.

This is not a prejudice invented by Tolkien and his friends, of course. The association of men with strength and women with weakness is woven deep into the fabric of what we may as well (though the word is problematic) refer to as “patriarchy.”