Are Tolkiens Books Sexist? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Rosie Posie Burrows · 01-27-2002, 08:32 AM

Incidentally, is there such thing as a female dwarf on Middle earth? If so, what are all those male dwarves doing to the females? Are they kept locked up in a dungeon somewhere? I think there's a serious issue of mistreatment there.
And if there isn't such thing as a female dwarf, how the hell are the dwarves reproducing?
Definitely something fishy going on…
Does Tolkein explain this in any of his works, or is it left as one of the Great Unanswered Questions of Middle Earth?
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01-27-2002, 08:32 AM	#1
Rosie Posie Burrows Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: England Posts: 11	Incidentally, is there such thing as a female dwarf on Middle earth? If so, what are all those male dwarves doing to the females? Are they kept locked up in a dungeon somewhere? I think there's a serious issue of mistreatment there. And if there isn't such thing as a female dwarf, how the hell are the dwarves reproducing? Definitely something fishy going on… Does Tolkein explain this in any of his works, or is it left as one of the Great Unanswered Questions of Middle Earth? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ "…For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green…"