Living in MiddleEarth

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Can anyone provide us with a quote of the Seven Fathers being not only male, or being set with females by Iluvatar. In the Silmarillion I can find nothing but this:

But I will not suffer this: that these should come before the Firstborn of my design, nor that thy impatience should be rewarded. They shall sleep now in darkness under stone, and shall not come forth until the Firstborn have awakened upon Earth; and until that time thou and they shall wait, though long it may seem