11-03-2005, 13:46
Violette,
Cf. les appendices au SdA:
DURIN'S FOLK "[...]It was said by Gimli that there are few dwarf-women, probably no more than a third of the whole people. [...].
It is because of the fewness of women among them that the kind of the Dwarves increases slowly, and is in peril when they have no secure dwellings. For Dwarves take only one wife or husband each in their lives, and are jealous, as in all matters of their rights. The number of dwarf-men that marry is actually less than one-third. For not all the women take husbands: some desire none; some desire one that they cannot get, and so will have no other. As for the men, very many also do not desire marriage, being engrossed in their crafts."