Personally, I think the only believable woman in the whole of LOTR was my namesake, Lobelia! ; - ) Well, maybe a few other hobbit women and the ladies of the Houses of Healing. Hobbit women, by the way, CAN be strong - they have a system whereby a woman can be anything except the Thain, and hobbit matriarchs run their families for years, even if their husbands die and there's a male heir. Tolkien wrote a very funny letter describing how Pippin's sister Pearl accidentally-on-purpose disposed of the female tyrant in their family...Also, Dwarf women look so like the guys - how do we know Gimli wasn't "daughter of Gloin"? (g)
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