>>212941849 (OP)I think they're just very child-like, or feminine, or if you will, just emotional sensitive and vulnerable. The hobbits kind of embody childhood (they're physically small, but also a young race, inexperienced with the outside world, sheltered from suffering, then have to come of age via the Fellowship). So all the Hobbits have a more child-like way of expressing their emotions by crying, cuddling and in the books holding hands (men hold hands with the hobbit characters too, though never with each other IIRC)
But also the books are thematically opposed to toxic-masculinity (basically, in nu-speak): it's a buzzword but by that I mean the idea there's a good way to be a man and a bad way that is destructive to others and yourself.
The books show righteous men as not just being brave, strong and competent, but also kind and considerate, compassionate, gentle with weak people, quick to laugh and they all sing and tell poems.
There's a few characters, like Boromir, that are strong, competent and (superhumanly) brave, but he's sort of too "macho" to be a real hero in LotR: he has vulnerability and fragility (he's extremely afraid of his people dying but also being proven to be weak) but he can never articulate it in an honest or humble way. He always boasts about how badass he and men of Minas Tirith are, but then at the end his insecurity about this is the chink in his armour that the Ring exploits.