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- From: forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis )
- Subject: Re: Dwarves want women (was Re: Melkor: Genetic Engineer?)
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:55:05 GMT
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- In article <1hb1joINN6sj@mirror.digex.com> dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
- >In article <BzpwuI.25I@max.physics.sunysb.edu> jlauret@sbchem.sunysb.edu (Jerome LAURET) writes:
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- >> Do anybody remenber about female dwarves in both Sil or LOTR ??
- >
- >FWIW, the only female dwarf explicitly mentioned is Dis, sister of
- >Thorin and mother to Fili and Kili. She's mentioned somewhere in the
- >appendices. Unfortunately, it gives no description of her, so we are
- >left with the mystery of whether female dwarves have beards...
- >
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- Appendix A of _The Return of the King_ reads:
-
- "Dis was the daughter of Thrain II. She is the only dwarf-woman mentioned in
- these histories. It is said by Gimli that there are few dwarf women,
- probably no more than a third of the whole people. They seldom walk abroad
- except at great need. They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they
- must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of
- other peoples cannot tell them apart. This has given rise to the foolish
- opinion amoung Men that there are no dwarf-women, and that the Dwarves 'grow
- out of stone'."
-
- The dwarf- women must have beards, else it wouldn't be difficult to
- distinguish them from the men. I wonder how they reproduce their species?
- Given a longer lifespan (250 yrs) they'd have ample time, yet they don't
- seem to be very motivated.
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- Eric Forbis forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu
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