During World War I social stratification barriers just kind of tumbled as everybody was in the pits together. There's some interesting relational dynamics there that I wonder if if Tolkien was like oh look all of these people could come together except for women or we don't allow any more than one woman per story or two women to match. Two but they can't talk to each other. Never have to be absolute smoke shows.

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