'Tis said the true honor is the nomination ... the Oscar itself is strictly political ...
Lord of the Rings received 17 Oscars yet nowhere in any of the movies did two women talk to one another ... you might be surprised at how many Hollywood movies there are with only one woman ...
I blame Tolkien ... one kindred didn't even have women ... dwarfs mate with rocks ... sick sick sick ...
Dwarf-women[note 1] were few among the
Dwarves, kept in secret, and were seldom seen by other races.
Role in society
Dwarves wanted their women to be protected from other races and they usually kept them concealed inside their mountain halls. They seldom traveled in the outside world, only in great need, and when they did, they were dressed as men; with similar voice and appearance as male dwarves, even when they are rarely seen they are usually mistaken for a male.
[1]
Family and fertility
Women joined their husbands' families. Women were seldom named in genealogies but if a son is seen to be 110 years younger than his father, this usually indicates an elder daughter.
Thorin's sister
Dís was named simply because of the gallant death of her sons
Fíli and
Kíli.
[2]
Gimli stated that only approximately one-third of their population consisted of women, which was the reason for the slow increase in population of the race. Moreover, while Dwarf-men outnumbered Dwarf-women two to one, less than half of Dwarf-men actually married: many preferred to spend their time with their crafts instead. Meanwhile, many Dwarf-women never took a husband either: some desire none, or desired one who could not or would not marry them, in which case they would have no other.
[1]
Misconceptions among other races
Because of the scarcity of Dwarf-women, their secrecy and similarity in appearance to males, and their lack of mention, many
Men failed to recognize their existence. They believed that the Dwarves' population was only of men, and a legend said therefore that they were 'born' by growing out of stone.
[1]
Other versions of the legendarium
In
The War of the Jewels, all Dwarves are described as having beards, including women.
[3] In later writings published in
The Nature of Middle-earth,
Tolkien did not discuss female Dwarves when listing the characters he imagined with or without beards, simply mentioning that all male Dwarves had beards.
[4]
Dwarf-women were few among the Dwarves, kept in secret, and were seldom seen by other races.
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It may indeed be that there were some dark arts of Sauron which made it difficult for Dwarves and even the people of Gondor to breed. The Hobbits seemed unaffected, the randy little buggers!!!
Greg
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