by Gumsch
-Slightly off topic -While it's often hard to point out the origin of such stuff with anything remotely resembling precision ... I'm pretty sure that bearded dwarven women were Pratchett's idea - and that Gimli's lines in the movies were some sort of homage to Pratchett. It definitely wasn't in the original LOTR novels. I don't believe that Tolkien spend a great deal of time thinking about the concept of dwarf women (or orc women) - and, after all, that hardly anyone thought about them was the point of Pratchett's joke. :)
In any case - the probability of incoming female dwarven or orcish units is probably sadly just a tiny bit above zero. :soblue: