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Author:  Cala Desrin [ March 13th, 2012, 8:27 am ]
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I haven't noticed that, but I would have loved to see some dwarf women, maybe they where there (I mean the movie) but because of their beards ... :-)))
I think Tolkien could have wrote more about them, I don't imagine them as house wifes, maybe house warriors ;-)

Author:  Cara [ March 13th, 2012, 9:33 am ]
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That is indeed cool idea, I would love to read about dwarven women too. :-D Bearded women are something I adore ;p

Author:  Felarof [ August 14th, 2012, 11:27 am ]
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It had never occured to me before now, but yah. There isn't a single female character. It doesn't bother me all that much, Tolkien was never one for female characters, and his male characters are really good.

Author:  Cala Desrin [ August 15th, 2012, 3:20 am ]
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Actually there is a female character, Goldberry the companion of Tom Bombadil, not a very important one but one of the more detalied female character, at least in the books :-)
And I can say that the ideea of the female dwarf came to me a fwe years ago, wen I started to write a story based on LOTR, all I can say she was a teen ager, obviously with beard :-)

Author:  Felarof [ August 15th, 2012, 11:32 am ]
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Oh, yes, Goldberry. I remember now. Thanks for saying something. :blush: That's pretty cool, Cala.

Author:  thestripybag [ August 21st, 2012, 1:25 pm ]
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Omg I can't believe I never noticed there were no female main characters in the hobbit! :O

Author:  Sírelindë [ August 21st, 2012, 1:39 pm ]
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thestripybag wrote:
Omg I can't believe I never noticed there were no female main characters in the hobbit! :O


Hence why PJ had to add in Tauriel and bring back Galadriel for the films - to balance it out :P

Author:  Felarof [ August 21st, 2012, 4:20 pm ]
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Sírelindë wrote:
thestripybag wrote:
Omg I can't believe I never noticed there were no female main characters in the hobbit! :O


Hence why PJ had to add in Tauriel and bring back Galadriel for the films - to balance it out :P

Yah. I think it was just Tolkien's style that made it that way. i know when I write stories, most of my characters are female.

Author:  thestripybag [ August 21st, 2012, 4:26 pm ]
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Perhaps. Now that I think of it, lotr doesn't seem to have many female characters either...

Author:  Felarof [ August 21st, 2012, 4:36 pm ]
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Yah, but it doesn't bother me. I don't really mind. I'd never really thought about it until now.

Author:  thestripybag [ August 21st, 2012, 4:40 pm ]
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I know and me niether! But it doesn't make lotr any less amazing:)

Author:  Felarof [ August 22nd, 2012, 1:18 pm ]
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thestripybag wrote:
But it doesn't make lotr any less amazing:)

Yah!

Author:  Cala Desrin [ August 26th, 2012, 3:43 pm ]
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I really don't know where my head was...JRRT paid hes dues in the Silmarillion, probably he thought that he wrote about to many women in that book so he concentrated more on men ;-)
Or maybe it was the other way around? :-))

Author:  Harthad [ September 2nd, 2012, 2:37 pm ]
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Cala Desrin wrote:
Actually there is a female character, Goldberry the companion of Tom Bombadil, not a very important one but one of the more detalied female character, at least in the books :-)
And I can say that the ideea of the female dwarf came to me a fwe years ago, wen I started to write a story based on LOTR, all I can say she was a teen ager, obviously with beard :-)


But Goldberry was only ever in LotR, right? Never The Hobbit, and as I should be right in saying this is a discussion for the lack of Female characters in The Hobbit.....then Goldberry doesn't exactly count. Right? :p

Author:  Cala Desrin [ September 4th, 2012, 2:20 am ]
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You are right, I have combined a little bite the Hobbit with LOTR, it's been some years since I read them, my bad :-)
Maibe because LOTR it was thought as a sequel to The Hobbit, and the firs part is more like that. :-)

Author:  Fanghorn fantic [ September 20th, 2013, 12:54 am ]
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Tolkien lived in time where men were dominant

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