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- From: ses2@po.CWRU.Edu (S. E. Stansfield)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Dwarves want women (was Re: Melkor: Genetic Engineer?)
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 18:59:45 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) says:
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- >In article <BzpwuI.25I@max.physics.sunysb.edu> jlauret@sbchem.sunysb.edu (Jerome LAURET) writes:
- >> Do anybody remenber about female dwarves in both Sil or LOTR ??
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- >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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- There is a discussion of female dwarves, I don't really recall which book
- it is. However, what it DOES say is that the only people who can tell
- males from females are other dwarves. This would imply to me that female
- dwarves DO have beards. (It may be in "The Shaping of Middle Earth")
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