Tolkien Was an Anime Watcher?

Just watched The Two Towers with my grandpa (he's a big Lord of the Rings fan). For the first time it occurred to me that Lord of the Rings has a stereotypical anime girl that has a hopeless crush on one of the main characters, tries to win the guy's heart by cooking for him, but she sucks at cooking, and the plan goes terribly wrong. Or maybe that stereotype reaches further than anime, and I'm just too illiterate to know.