Turbine designer Nik Davidson says:
He went on to say:"The rule that we tried to follow across the board was: if there's an example of it in the book, the door is open to explore it. Very rarely will you see an elf and a human hook up, but it does happen; the door is open. Dwarves don't intermarry with hobbits; that door is shut... Did two male hobbits ever hook up in the shire and have little hobbit civil unions? No. The door is shut."
Jeffrey Steefel, the game's producer has said though that it isn't entirely out of the question."Tolkien was a conservative Catholic. He went out drinking with C.S. Lewis every night, and the two of them had a worldview that was -- well, let's just say it clashes a little bit with the sensibilities of East Coast liberals who make up the largest population of Turbine."
------"I just couldn't figure out how to get it all done with all the other things we had to get finished," he said
Quick, someone call the MECLU.