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Can anyone provide us with a quote of the Seven Fathers being not only male, or being set with females by Iluvatar. In the Silmarillion I can find nothing but this:
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I'm not at home with my books, but I did a search of other threads and found where someone used the quote I was remembering (from HoME XI The War of the Jewels)-
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[Ilúvatar] commanded Aulë to lay the fathers of the Dwarves severally in deep places, each with his mate, save Durin the eldest who had none
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So does this mean that three of the "fathers" were mothers, or what? My memory on this section is very sketchy. I wish I could read the rest of the text but it'll have to wait.