Dwarf women debate solved?

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Originally Posted by Starfall

But it still says "in voice and appearance". The only thing it actually implies is that they were usually dressed differently. Is that to say they did or didn't put on false beards when they went traveling? In mythology there are no dwarf women, period. When they're mentioned, mysteriously they always have sons but no wives or daughters. They were said to have been created from maggots, but even the giants had women so you'd think the dwarves would have them too.

I think you need to check the grammar of what he's writing. The sentance is dragging on with adjectives amnd then gets to why this is so. "But it still says voice and appearance" well doesn't appearance mean what they look like? I simpley imply consider you the way the sentance was written. If this was so wouldn't he just say "and they whore different clothes on journeys".
What you're saying doesn't really make sense. Why would he put ths info on the dw when he was talking about journeys and not elsewhere in there description? I meancome on it makes much more sense to me that they would change there appearance so that other races wouldn't be able to tell them apart. Look at the language Khizdul, very few people other than the Dwarves have learned because they try to keep it a closely guarded secret, why not the same s the Dwarves? Which something of this sort is stated farther down the dw paragraph.
If they did have beards wouldn't Gimli have said so or wouldn't he have stated something like "Dwarf-women were different from other races of women in the fact that they had beards". Come on we just can't explain away the reason for this.

I'm a little scattered brained so you'll have to forgive me if I'm not making sense.