The only reason that you would put details of everyday life in a book is if those details somehow influenced the eventual outcome. If they did not, then there was no need to put them in, if the author didn't want to include them. Also, Tolkien was writing a grand epic. Somehow people want their heroes to be greater than life, and thus, not need to "relieve" themselves the way ordinary folk do. It's just a part of wanting our heroes to be superhuman. If we had found out that Aragorn had to regularly use the bathroom, he wouldn't seem such a majestic character any more. He'd just be normal, and heroes aren't normal.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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