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JCL2
03-16-2003, 01:55 PM
WHY ARE MOST DWARVES SHORT?IS THAT WHAT TOLKEIN THOUGHT?
Shadowfax
03-16-2003, 02:02 PM
Yes, that is what Tolkien "thought". His made his dwarves short.
JCL2
03-16-2003, 02:10 PM
Originally posted by Shadowfax
Yes, that is what Tolkien "thought". His made his dwarves short. SO I WAS RIGHT.
BeardofPants
03-16-2003, 02:45 PM
No, actually aliens came down and made Tolkien write about short dwarves. :rolleyes:
Varda Oiolosseo
03-16-2003, 03:26 PM
lol!! :D
TheRingIsMine
03-16-2003, 03:33 PM
does that make me a dwarf?
JCL2
03-16-2003, 03:41 PM
Originally posted by TheRingIsMine
does that make me a dwarf? no it doesnt.
TheRingIsMine
03-16-2003, 03:43 PM
but i am a hobbit!
Gwaimir Windgem
03-16-2003, 04:02 PM
Um....dwarves are short.

PADLOCK!!
Gwaimir Windgem
03-16-2003, 04:04 PM
P. S. It's Gimli, not Gimili.
Lady of Rohan
03-16-2003, 04:25 PM
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.
Gwaimir Windgem
03-16-2003, 04:31 PM
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.
Heather Wooltoes
03-16-2003, 04:33 PM
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
Lady of Rohan
03-16-2003, 04:38 PM
Originally posted by Gwaimir Windgem
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.

AH, that sucks! And I thought that that was the one sence that I actually understood in the book. Well not any more. Oh well, it is bound to get easier as it goes on right?

*goes of muttering about know it alls.....* j/k ;) :D
Gwaimir Windgem
03-16-2003, 05:08 PM
Don't despair. I utterly floundered when I first tried to read it. :)
crickhollow
03-16-2003, 07:08 PM
As Gwaimir so eloquently put it:

PADLOCK!!!