Alan Sisto

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The Prancing Pony Podcast · 416 – The Sound of Silence · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

If they are your good fighters, I mean, if your fighters are all good across the board, men and women, why not include women when you send the force to be allied for, let's say, the, I don't know, whichever battle, the Battle of Unnumbered Tears or one of these other battles.

If you're going to go and be there, send all your good fighters.

But I wonder if it's, they are a small people.

Yeah.

That's fair.

He does explain a little bit in the footnote.

We can kind of expand on this.

This was sort of an old custom of theirs, though, the idea of women being involved in combat.

But Tolkien explains in the footnote here that their involvement was rather a cause of their small numbers than its result.

That is, the fact that women fought isn't

The consequence of having a small population, it was a cause of having a small population.

He says, continuing in the footnote, they increased in numbers far more slowly than the other Atani, hardly more than was sufficient to replace the wastage of war.

Yet many of their women, who were fewer than the men, remained unwed.

Now, that's interesting.

So if you've got women representing a smaller portion of the population, which, I mean, we can get into the argument that genetically that makes no sense.

I mean, we talked about that a little bit with the dwarves and how few of them got married and how long they had.

Basically, the fact they didn't have hardly any kids and the fact that they would have actually died out generations before.

The dwarves would have gone to extinction.

But, you know, we'll forgive him that.

It sounds like that's a similar problem here, even if we're talking about 55-45, and then a number of those don't get married.

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