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Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar
An additional factor could be the traditional "man in the moon", also used by Tolkien in some of his lighter poems.
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Probably this was the only real reason for it to be that way. Tolkien wrote these poems before he wrote the books, so he made the books fit the poems, in such a way that it
seems that he made the poems fit the books.
He has a poem where the sun is a "she" and the moon is a "he". Why would hobbits attach these genders? Because they heard whisps of lore/legends from men and elves. And what lore could it be? The making of the Sun and the Moon. But when we read the book, it seems to be the opposite way.