Characteristics Dwarf (Middle-earth)

an illustration of middle-earth dwarf.

in silmarillion, dwarves described shorter , stockier elves , men, able withstand both heat , cold. though mortal, dwarves have average lifespan of 250 years.

in lord of rings tolkien writes breed slowly, no more third of them female, , not marry; also, female dwarves , sound (and dress, if journeying—which rare) alike dwarf-males other folk cannot distinguish them, , others wrongly believe dwarves grow out of stone. tolkien names 1 female, dís.

tolkien s dwarves, mythical forebears, great metalworkers, smiths , stoneworkers. fierce in battle, main weapons axes (referenced in many subsequent fantasy works), use bows, swords, shields , mattocks. unlike other fantasy dwarves, tolkien not explicitly have them use war hammers.

since lived underground, dwarves did not grow own food supplies if it, , obtained food through trade elves , men. in essay of dwarves , men in peoples of middle-earth written dwarf , human communities formed trade relations men prime suppliers of food, farmers , herdsmen, while dwarves supplied tools , weapons, road-building , construction work.

unlike elves , men, created supreme god ilúvatar, dwarves created vala aulë.

throughout first age , of second age, dwarves maintain friendly trading relations men , elves (the treachery of dwarves of nogrod towards thingol of doriath being exception). however, in third age, particularly after closure of moria, grow mistrustful of elves, though in later times cordial relations established elves of mirkwood , men of dale. maintain ambivalent relations hobbits of third age, although after mission retake lonely mountain bilbo baggins held in great esteem there.