Dwarves vs Elves

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Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

Actually they don't really care what other races think of them. We can see this in the way that they cut themselves off from the rest of the world in their mountain strongholds, and how they keep things to themselves: their language, weapons, history, and knowledge. If they really wanted to have the elves know about them, I seriously doubt that the Silmarillion would be chiefly made up of doings of the elves. The Dwarf philosophy of comparing themselves to others strikes me as this: "Hey, we know were better than those crazy elves or humans, so why bother letting them know about us: it's none of their bussiness! Get away from me!"

Strangely enough, that's one of the things which I like most about them.

Dwarves, like Hobbits, are often underestimated because of their size, but they are more determined than any other race in Middle Earth. Most people don't like them because they are too prideful of themselves, well don't they have a right to be? With fighting like that it's pretty hard not to be, just think what other tales of glory that they have kept secret.

I've always had the impression (perhaps from other fantasy media) that while dwarves are only about 5' tall, they still weigh about 150 lbs of solid muscle. If they were 6 footers, they'd be built like The Hulk.

Combine that with their stamina from years of splitting rocks and forging metal, and you have some very formidable fighters. They remind me of a race of beings who resemble Naim Suleymanoglu:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html...rts/07.22.html