Talk:Hobbit Marriage Ring/@comment-30256951-20160618132900/@comment-25565811-20161025192155

As I did my research for this page and also for the Dwarven Marriage Ring, I also tried out gay marriage, mostly, because it was impossible to find female Dwarves by that time. I realized, that it was not possible, and wondered why. I can imagine two possible reasons for that:
 * Tolkien invented his world in a time, where gay relationships were punished as a crime throughout Europe. So he avoided this in all of his books (as far as I know them).
 * The whole world has a feeling of Middle-age in my opinion. So Mevans might have regarded gay marriage as inappropriate for that setting.