Definitely the courtly love and adoration and the fact that with all this elf racism against dwarves, she had been kind. But she must also have been touched and flattered - don't forget, Feanor couldn't get ONE hair from her, and Gimli got three! :-) Dwarves, of all people, can appreciate beauty - they create it! Even the artistic Elves have been known to order jewellery from the dwarves.
Not sure I like all this rudeness about dwarf women. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and no doubt male dwarves - those of them who can get women, which is only about 1/3 of them - write sonnets to the silkiness of the beloved's beard. Stop laughing, I mean it! Quite probably in Africa, say, a white person is thought of as an ugly fish-belly colour - and we're the same species!
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