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Hobbit
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![]() WHY ARE MOST DWARVES SHORT?IS THAT WHAT TOLKEIN THOUGHT?
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The Fleet-Footed
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Yes, that is what Tolkien "thought". His made his dwarves short.
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Hobbit
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the Shrike
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No, actually aliens came down and made Tolkien write about short dwarves.
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Tea Bag Queen
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lol!!
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Sapling
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does that make me a dwarf?
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Hobbit
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Sapling
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but i am a hobbit!
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Gandalf: I liked white better. Elrond: Many Elves and many mighty Men and many of their friends, had perished in the war Merry: I'm hungry, what is the time? ~*Peace*~ |
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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Um....dwarves are short.
PADLOCK!!
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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P. S. It's Gimli, not Gimili.
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Doughy Elf
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![]() I know this! I read it! But it is fromthe Silmarilion. Aule made dwarves, but Iluvator wanted to make his elves the first borns so Aule got upset, and started to pund on the dwarves to try and kill them. The just shrunk a bit, instead of dying, then Iluvator came down and told Aule to stop, and just make the dwarves sleep until he made his first borns come alive. The story is actually much longer, that is just a modified version, and it probab;y isn't even right.
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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Um...not quite right...
![]() Actually they were made by Aule. And he didn't actually pound them with his hammer; he took up his hammer to crush them, but they cowered before them, something they would not have done except that Iluvatar gave his approval by giving them life. They were short because Aule's memory of the Children was rather vague, and His Children were not as the Children of Iluvatar as a result.
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Elven Warrior
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There is a 6'3 dwarf named Carrot in Terry Pratchetts DiscWorld book "Guards Guards" Terry pokes a little fun at LOTR too. FUUUUNNNYY!!!!
I highly reccomend the series to anyone with a love of fantasy and a sense of humor
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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Don't despair. I utterly floundered when I first tried to read it.
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The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain
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As Gwaimir so eloquently put it:
PADLOCK!!!
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