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Return to Me  by Strange Blaze 2 Review(s)
SimplegirlfromLPReviewed Chapter: 7 on 6/15/2020
You are so cute with the explanations. This is my second read through with your story and I know it will end soon. So I am reading it anxiously knowing it will end soon.
I hope you get this email and I hope you are ok and that nothing serious is the cause for your writing to have ceased.

MirielReviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/25/2003
Kudos for being the only fanfiction story I have ever seen with Dwarf women. I myself have written a story soley on a Dwarf women, posted here at "stories." I am pleased to see the your Dwarf Men atttitudes toward women were exactly the same as mine.

I disagree on the bearded women. I believe that Dwarf women had beards.
The passage in Return of the King says that "[Dwarf-women] are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other people cannot tell them apart." … In Peoples of Middle Earth there is draft material from that Appendix, and the draft version of this passage says that "There is no difference in substance in the present text, except for the statements that they are never forced to wed against their will (which ‘would of course be impossible'), and that they have beards." Why JRRT chose to omit this information cannot be guessed.

In the post-LotR Quenta Silmarillion is a section containing "the words of Pengolod concerning the Naugrim" (pp. 203+ of The War of the Jewels, US Edition at least). In paragraph 5, we learn that "no Man nor Elf has ever seen a beardless Dwarf–unless he were shaven in mockery, and would then be more like to die of shame than of many other hurts that to us would seem more deadly. For the Naugrim have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike; nor indeed can their womenkind be discerned by those of other race, be it in feature or in gait or in voice, nor in any wise save this: that they go not to war, and seldom save at direst need issue from their deep bowers and halls."

I rest my case. Also, the phrase "go not to war" is the premise for my story. Anyway, glad to see that another writer has thought of the Dwarf women. Cheers!


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