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Originally Posted by Galadriel
Haha, I never thought of gardens and fields as pertaining to or having a particular gender  Why do you say gardens are ladylike? |
I don't know. It's kinda like, while men work far off in the fields women weed the vegetable patch.
Men also tended gardens, sure, but usually if the man had other work the garden/patch fell on the woman's shoulders.
Or at least that's how I see it.
In different places in ME it would be different. In the Shire there's enough food so that men tend to the gardens. In Gondor - men are needed to fight, so it's the women's job. In places like Rivendell we don't even know where the food comes from.
It all depends.
I might view it a certain way because I have a very confused / mixed-cultured understanding of all this. Someone else, who read slightly different books or spoke to different people, might see it as the opposite.