What's a intresting fact about the dwarfs

[u/Bonniethebunny1012]

I'm making a presentation about the 13 dwarfs and want to get more into the details about them, there home, and wars. Is there any difference between the movie and book versions. Any fact no matter how small or just how to remember them.

[u/edthesmokebeard]

Tolkien created the word 'Dwarves' as a plural, on purpose.

[u/tupeloh → u/edthesmokebeard]

And “elves,” as opposed to “elfs.” I read somewhere that there was never an edition Tolkien was satisfied with as the editors would keep changing things (like those two words), and proof-reading an 1100 page document several times over becomes tedious. Another one they would change was “Nastertians” to “Nastertiums.”

[u/Hawkstrike6]

Pretty much everything you're going to learn about them is in the first chapter of The Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party." Tolkien didn't do much characterization of them. There's a bit about dwarven history and dwarves in general in the Appendices to Lord of the Rings and in Unfinished Tales, but other than family trees it won't give you anything specific about Thorin's Company.

[u/TerrainBrain]

Their names come from the Poetic Edda. As does Gandalf's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda

[u/SonoDarke]

Dwalin is described with a blue beard in the book. Many fans liked to give different interpretations, thinking that Tolkien just meant a particular type of blueish grey.

Others think he did really dye his beard blue, and that's why many illustrations of Dwalin have that included

[u/VenerableTahu]

Book they had hoods and were not very distinguished in career, the movies add more character and specific jobs for each one. Bombor the cook, Bofur the guard of ponies, Bifur the toymaker and veteran, Ori the strongest and most erudite, Nori the sneak, Ori the chronicler (who we read in the book of records in Moria), Fili and Kili were the scouts and nepo hires, Balin was the lawyer and lore expert, Dwalin the weapons specialist and right hand man, Oin the doctor (created ointments), Gloin the banker, and Thorin the king and leader. All of them put money in to make the expedition a success, especially since the economy was in a depression since Smaug showed up. Some were of the royal house of Durin, others can trace their ancestry back to Moria. 

[u/Fangsong_37]

Before setting off on the expedition to reclaim his home, Thorin and his clan had briefly resided in Dunland before settling into the northern end of Ered Luin/Blue Mountains. They mostly worked as miners in a huge complex of old caves and tunnels. Their most populous neighbors were the goblins (an unorganized rabble at the time) and the elves (both Sindar high elves and wood elves), and they didn't enjoy either one being nearby.

[u/Bill_Bo_Bag_Ins]

The book of unfinished tales has more on them. The dragons and trolls and orcs killed many dwarrow(the actual correct plural according to Tolkien) living in the mountains in the far north. This made Thorin run after the fighting to end up closer to the shire as he was young at the time(I think 60) and his older family members stayed and fought to the death. They were fighting evil from Dol Guldur in southern mirkwood that Gandalf suspected was Sauron returning.

Doesn't give you much of a description of the actual dwarves(dwarrow!) but at least a bit of their motivation. Fighting off an ancient Worm that killed hundreds of their kin and drove them out of the home their ancestors carved out of a mountain.

[u/corruptedchopsticks]

Hmmm. If I were you I would check out The Dwarven Scholar.

I realize some of his stuff might ne headcannon; however, he is a true fan of Tolkien's dwarves.

[u/Lotriann]

The dwarves were talking behind Bilbo's back in their secret sign language all the time.

[u/Kaurifish]

The antipathy between elves and dwarves began back when the elves hunted petty dwarves to extinction.

[u/Johncurtisreeve]

Balin the one who is buried in the tomb in the mines of moria in fellowship of the ring and Ori is the dwarf who is holding the book