I now pronounce you Dwarf & Hobbit...oops!

[davem]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

Not knowing much about the man himself, I can't really answer that question. I doubt he would even have considered it though, considering the society he lived in. And, if it wasn't considered, that makes homosexuality equivalent to giraffes and going to the loo; a logical extension of the real world into Tolkien's imaginary world.

Unless as a consequence of unconsciously excluding it he consciously conceived of the inhabitants as either heterosexual or asexual. Bit like if someone painting their house can only choose from red, green or blue paint. If they 'unconsiously' exclude the green, they will end up with a red/blue colour scheme. It might be 'logically possible' for green to have been used, but you still won't find any green in the house. You're unlikely to find bits of the house unpainted because the person 'forgot' to use green paint - they will have covered everything in either red or blue. Hence, in order to bring in some green you'd have to paint over something the owner had chosen to paint red or blue. Hence you'd be changing the colour scheme & making it into one the owner hadn't chosen. The new scheme may be better, look more aesthetically pleasing, but it wouldn't be what the owner intended.