Unrelated to your original question, and not something I particularly want or intend to disparage you over, or discuss further - each to their own and all that - but I’d just be wary of dismissing entire works purely based on your perception of how women are represented, without taking into account the society in which they were written and the worlds in which they were set - I think you’ll make your life poorer for it. If anything, why not read it to see if it confirms your original impression? Plus, as I’m sure you’re aware, in LOTR there are a number of powerful and plot vital female characters, including Galadriel, Éowyn and even Shelob :)

People put themselves into their work. It shouldn't be surprising. I think if you broaden your quest you'll find many "unimportant to the story" things besides fetishes repeated by many authors.

Things unimportant to the story make the story interesting. It's the difference between reading a novelisation of something and the Wikipedia article - if you want the latter in fiction, just stick to Brando Sando!

"I haven't read nor seen the movies due to a lack of female characters in the story," might be one of the most deranged things I've read this week.

Oh LotR wasn't safe from this, Tolkien definitely had a thirst for those big hairy Hobbit feet.

I'll give the examples

Please do.

Honestly? No, I don’t see that. I’ve read over 300 books over the last few years, quite a few were even romance novels, but I don’t see what you are referring to. Authors often use trauma as a plot device for character growth and story development, sometimes it gets a bit tropey, which is probably what you are referring to as a “fetish”.

Now if you want more fetish books, you’ll want to get into the BDSM/dark romance books. Those have lots of delicious fetishes in them.

Who else is going to write their fetishes?

You want something done right, you do it yourself! 😁

Mate, you're going to need to be specific because your third paragraph is a yellow flag and I'm curious what you think is a fetish now.

Not really? If you can, then why not?

(I don't know the scenes you're taking about though)

What's Martin's fetish?

Anyone else think this was going to be about Piers Anthony?

Author here. Careful, some of us are very aware of what we put and don't put in our books. It's baiting and hooking.

Like how Steven King wants to fuck middle school aged girls while everyone on earth urinates themselves simultaneously.