Talk:Dwarves (Middle-earth)
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"he Dwarvish language, called Khuzdūl and created by Aulė, sounds much like Hebrew, and one may draw the similarities between the Dwarves and the Jews even farther."
I am curious as to how Dwarvish is like Hebrew...as far as I recall there is very little Dwarvish in the books, and Tolkien just didn't create a full language for them. And what other similaritiess are there with "the Jews"? Adam Bishop 05:48, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- The Dwarvish language is (IIRC) based on three-letter roots, like Hebrew and Arabic. Also, some folks think "Khazad" sounds like "Khazar". The obvious antisemitic stereotypes get in there, too. *shrug* It's overanalyzing, is what it is. --FOo 15:02, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Tolkien's own opinion on the matter is now in the article. The letter was to the person in charge of the Lord of the Rings radio dramatization, and the forn of the reply, especially the part about accents, does make me think that the question was about similarities between Khuzdul and Hebrew. — No-One Jones (talk) 15:18, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- No quarrel with that. — No-One Jones (talk) 15:20, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Did Tolkien ever really call them dwarrows? --Aranel 01:39, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- After looking it up in Letters and Appendix F, I've updated the article with information the term dwarrows and the origin of the term dwarves. Dwarrows is never used to refer to Tolkien's Dwarves, so I removed it from the opening of the article and did not put it in bold text. --[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 21:22, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
It is used in proper names, such as "Dwarrowdelf" as an alternate name for Moria.
Moved back
Moved back to the plural, for consistency with other articles. (And for the vast majority of links) [[User:Anįrion|Missing image
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