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In fact a symbol of masculinity before the 20th century was for a man to have at least hair beyond his ears reaching to his shoulders. Looking back at medivial history and Ancient history, the average male kept his hair longer than the Average Female does today. And if I can't convince that Long Hair is Masculine just look at Lord of the Rings. I don't think I saw a guy in the whole trilogy with hair shorter than shoulder length.
Ohh I'm sorry I mispelled my last time horribly. LOL
Wasn't Frodo hair shorter than shoulder length?
Ahhh, but then he wasn't a man.
Yes Frodos Hair was not short by todays standards but not long either. Hobbit Hair is just weird.
Unfortunately LOTR is just a film and not even based on reality. We cannot compare what we see in movies with what we see in reality.
As I said before, most fans of LOTR are short-haired persons who are not necessarily keen on long hair.
They just like the epic side of the movie.
Correction, it is originally a series of 3 books, divided into 2 books each. The movie came after, and many of the characters in the books are described with long hair.
Actually, the Lord of the Rings is based on medieval europe. The dwarves (Naugrim) are the scandinavian and nordic races, and Numenor (mentioned in LOTR but expanded on in "Silmarillion") is essentially America.
I don't recall you saying that before, but many fans of the books and movies are longhairs. . .myself and my best friend for example.
Curiously enough, Tolkien was a Christian who smoked pot and drank ale. My how our values have changed.
I've never heard of him smoking pot, but for a christian to drink ale, I don't see what's special about that.
I had a feeling the way the hobbit weed affected those silly shire folk was a bit different from traditional tabacco. I guess peter jackson picked up on this too considering how he had merry and pippin act after they found the huge stash in saruman's tower.
Anyway, bout the long hair... I'm no historian but I've seen paintings, statues, and the like from way back when and men definitly had long hair at certain points in history. More importantly, kevin sorbo from hercules the legendary journeys did and that is all the justification I need.
Indeed, the shirelings seem to be smoking something more potent. But that's not the same as Tolkien himself toked :)
Hello Tarikh,
I believe Kenneth was pointing out that the men with long hair in the movie look masculine. The reality was that moviegoers did not wander out into the light of the theater lobby bewildered why the director chose to put on an all-female production of Lord of the Rings. ;-) The men were obviously men and quite handsomely so.
Elizabeth
Agreed.
If we were not meant to have long hair, it wouldn't grow!
But then some unfortunate people might disagree with that statement if they suffer from MPB!
They could still grow it long, just not on top!
I think of MPB as natures way of telling you you're not meant to have long hair.
Aye, but it wouldn't look so great, plus a full head of hair should never go away, it's unnatural!
just let it grow
who needs justification anyway
