JamesAndrix comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JamesAndrix 09 September 2010 01:29:50AM 2 points [-]

Another example of attribution error: Why would Gimli think that Galadriel is beautiful?

If I'm not mistaken, all those races were created, so they could reasonably have very similar standards of beauty, and the elves might have been created to match that.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 09 September 2010 04:19:25AM 2 points [-]

[From Wikipedia:}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_%28Middle-earth%29)

In The Lord of the Rings Tolkien writes that they breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry; also, female Dwarves look and sound (and dress, if journeying — which is rare) so alike to Dwarf-males that other folk cannot distinguish them, and thus others wrongly believe Dwarves grow out of stone. Tolkien names only one female, Dís. In The War of the Jewels Tolkien says both males and females have beards.[18]

On the other hand, I suppose it's possible that if humans find Elves that much more beautiful than humans, maybe Dwarves would be affected the same way, though it seems less likely for them.

Comment author: JamesAndrix 09 September 2010 06:01:56AM 3 points [-]

Also, perhaps dwarves don't have their beauty-sense linked to their mating selection. They appreciate elves as beautiful but something else as sexy.