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FishFood posted:(I know Tolkiens dwarfs are based explicitly on Jews, but I don't think any of the others share the same kind of racial/religious stand-in status. Correct me if I'm wrong.) The language of Tolkien's dwarves (spelled with a 'v' to differentiate them from real people with dwarfism according to Tolkien himself) was based on the Semitic language family, of which Hebrew is a branch. Tolkien never fully developed it the way he did the elf languages, but his notes on the bits of grammar and vocabulary he did work out are pretty unambiguous as to their inspirations. Apparently somebody was paid to 'finish' the dwarven language in preparation for the Hobbit movies. The concept of dwarves as short, burly, bearded craftsmen who toil in the earth and lust after gold comes straight from the Germanic mythology he studied as a scholar of Old English literature though, many of the names used for dwarves in his stories were borrowed straight from the Norse Eddas. 1994 Toyota Celica fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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