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arithmancer
Grey Havens
Jul 9 2013, 1:32am
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All three of the Dwarf women shown in your links have beards.
Though I certainly agree none of them in the dress and hairstyles shown, would ever be mistaken for Dwarf males. What I could see is, if wearing clothing and travelling gear styled like the males' clothing and bulky/non-fitting enough not to show female figures, they could be mistaken for males.
My own reaction to these scenes was that we are not seeing these women on a longer journey to foreign parts in which Dwarves are few. We are seeing them go about their daily business in Dale, a city right at the doors of Erebor, the Men of which may be understood to have had a special relationship to the Dwarves.
I did not take Gimli's comments to suggest that Dwarves (even in the privacy of their underground kingdoms) do not observe any difference in dress and personal adornment by sex. Rather that to outsiders, when Dwarf women are dressing to not draw attention, they can be mistaken for males. The observer, to tell them apart, might need to notice they are shorter, more slightly built, and have wispier beards. (And a casual observer of the Race of Men would find all Dwarves quite short and quite stocky, and would not expect facial hair on a female.)
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Why didn't the dwarf females have beards?
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Sinister71
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Jul 9 2013, 1:01am
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Puzzled.
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arithmancer
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Jul 9 2013, 1:32am
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also
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Maciliel
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Jul 9 2013, 1:55am
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From memory,
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Ataahua
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Jul 9 2013, 6:20am
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beards and books and badgers oh my
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Elthir
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Jul 9 2013, 5:48pm
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Gimli also says in that scene that some people think that there are no Dwarf women. Which is of course ridiculous. But there clearly are.
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emre43
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Jul 9 2013, 6:51am
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3 hairy women for you
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DanielLB
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Jul 9 2013, 7:08am
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Phwoarrr!!!!!!
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emre43
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Jul 9 2013, 8:39am
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Interesting ...
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Arandir
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Jul 9 2013, 12:36pm
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They did //
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dormouse
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Jul 9 2013, 9:13am
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Actually
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Lindele
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Jul 9 2013, 12:20pm
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Re: female Dwarf non-beards
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dik-dik
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Jul 9 2013, 4:31pm
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The Hobbit Movie Source Book
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Rostron2
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Jul 9 2013, 5:15pm
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I saw only one dwarf woman in the movie.
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RosieLass
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Jul 9 2013, 6:09pm
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Question
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IdrilofGondolin
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Jul 9 2013, 8:04pm
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There are a number of references
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DanielLB
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Jul 9 2013, 8:20pm
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references
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Maciliel
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Jul 9 2013, 8:45pm
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We've disagreed about this in the past
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DanielLB
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Jul 9 2013, 8:52pm
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happy you found the exact quote
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Maciliel
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Jul 9 2013, 8:55pm
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War of the Beards
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Elthir
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Jul 10 2013, 7:55pm
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Oh and Gimli...
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Elthir
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Jul 10 2013, 8:04pm
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DALE
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Retro315
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Jul 9 2013, 8:46pm
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To me
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marillaraina
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Jul 9 2013, 11:32pm
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This
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glor
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Jul 13 2013, 7:59pm
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subject line
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marillaraina
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Jul 14 2013, 6:16pm
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appearance
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Elthir
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Jul 15 2013, 11:40pm
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