[Galadriel55]

I found it interesting that the sun is a "she" and the moon is a "he". I understand why they are opposite genders - it's a balance of nature, just like light and dark, - but why specifically that way? Before reading this chapter, I associated the moon with a feminine character, and the sun with no constant gender attatched to it. Though that might be because my first language is Russian, where the word for "moon" is feminine and the "sun" is a 'heshe', 'middle-gender' sort of thing.
Tolkien could have made the moon a lady and the sun a man. That wouldn't have changed the story. What could the genders imply?

When the Valar put a "fence" around Valinor, they were not only severing their bonds with the exiles, but also in a way with the rest of the world. After the hiding, there is much less interaction between the Valar and ME. I don't think they fenced themselves in though. Gildor said to Frodo something like "You can fence yourself in from the rest of the world, but the world did not fence you out". This is an instance where it wouldn't work that way. Somehow it works out to be "the Valar fenced the rest of the world out from Valinor".

Makes any sense?