I don't know if this is what you mean to get out of the discussion, so if not, then just ignore me entirely.
Ok, what if LOTR was viewed from a "Big folk" perspective? I got a simple answer, it would definately be more biased.
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But they (dwarves) are not evil by nature, and few ever served the Enemy of free will, whatever the tales of Men may have alleged. For men of old lusted after their wealth and the work of their hands and there has been enmity between the races.
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This is in
Appendix F under the dwarven section of
The Languages and Peoples of the Third Age. I think this is the common work of man. That if we don't like somebody, or something, we write these tales about them, as Tolkien states here. They wrote false tales about dwarves because they were jealous (sorry if I'm sounding like a misanthrope). Of course this is also assuming that Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam, are accurate in their tales. We have to remember what we read in this book may not always be true, duh duh duh. But, I would think that the three hobbits were fairly accurate at getting the facts straight.
