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Noxomanus, how many outsiders are allowed within Dwarves' homes? For all we (and the rest of the world) know, all the female Dwarves could actually be beardless, but wear false beards so that they would be mistaken for Dwarf men, and thus, not be trifled with.
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lol.
It's really a question that I don't think we'll ever really know the answer to, unless someone has found in Tolkien's letters what he thought about it. All I remember him saying is that there were hardly any dwarven women & so, as Finwe just said, their population was dwindeling.