Tolkein is a four letter word.
That sour old fart was far too obviously fapping about his 'perfect creatures' the Elves.
Fun fact; Tolkein also claimed that to an Elf, the act of sex is basically exactly the same as marriage. Also, there is never ANY extramarital sex between elves, because they
just know and
just wouldn't.
Fun Fact; He also stated that if you were to
rape an Elf, it would instantly die on the spot.
Which would technically make you an Instant Widow, I guess.
Stupid Tolkein.
He only wrote the dwarves as an even remotely empathic race, (rather than a mean spirited race of bearded goblins, basically), because he slipped up and made his children's-book featuring a different type of dwarf, part of his pet project world. (The Hobbit having been originaly concieved as entirely seperate, I understand).
He had no interest in his Dwarves as a people, (only working on them slightly more than his Orcs which almost entirely exist to recieve heroic swords, blade first). So really, I do not consider him REMOTELY an authority on the Race, let alone worthy of emulating.
Not that I have strong opinions on the subject or anything!