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And in this light it makes sense that the two characters who are actively interested in girls (Faramir and Sam) are more resistant to the lure of the ring. . Thinking about it the war of the Ring seems just a culmination of an awful lot of unresolved sexual frustration. And without wanting to get very Freudian about warfare, especially warfare largely involving swords and spears - that hippy motto about making love not war starts to make an awful lot of sense !
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I think I hear Underhill laughing.
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The emphasis on their work is one reason many of them do not marry and suggests to me that they have concentrated on material possessions instead of relationships – which could be considered a masculine trait, though it is not limited to males nor typical of all of them.
As artists, they wanted the freedom that being single lends to a person: freedom of schedule and such
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Not that I am disagreeing with these statements, but being the boring literalist fuddy-duddy that I am I should point out that the minority of dwarf females necessitated that dwarf males find something else to do with their time.
(Hey, somebody had to do it…
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