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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
TMiddle-earth of course has three species of 'human ape' - Men, Elves and Dwarves.
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I'm guessing that the Dwarves were completely different as they were made in private by Aulė. Now, in his mind he may have had some of Eru's thinking, but from my point of view, the Dwarves were distinctly different from the other two races.
Now, we know that elves and humans can mate, meaning that at best each is a subspecies. I cannot think of any Dwarf-human/hobbit/elf cross, and so I'm guessing that they are completely different.
Not that Gimli didn't didn't consider the experiment with Galadriel...