The Hobbits of Tolkien by David Day

Author:David Day
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

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PART FOUR

THE QUEST OF THE LONELY MOUNTAIN

A CONSPIRACY OF DWARVES

The quiet life of Bilbo Baggins of Bag End is forever disturbed by the unexpected arrival of thirteen conspiring Dwarves. Known as Thorin and Company, these conspirators recruit the respectable Hobbit as a specialist burglar and entice him off on their adventure. Who and what are these Dwarfs or Dwarves? And how and why did they become involved in this adventure or quest?

First of all they are Dwarves, not Dwarfs. Tolkien wanted specifically to address the issue of the Dwarfs as a race of bearded stunted people, rather than Men of a vertically challenged stature. He began his attempt to define and standardize the race by recognizing a proper plural term for these people. Tolkien came up with Dwarves, although he acknowledged that in proper linguistic terms it would be more correct to call them Dwarrows.

DWARF (Modern English) plural is Dwarfs

DWEORH (Old English) plural is Dwarrows

DWEORH (Westron) plural is Dwarrows

DWARF (translated Westron) plural is Dwarves

So you find in Tolkien’s books Dwarf (Modern English) becomes Dwarfs in plural; Dweorh (Old English and Westron) becomes Dwarrows; and Dwarf (translated Westron, the common speech of the Westlands of Middle-earth) becomes Dwarves. Furthermore, the origin of Dwarf is in the Indo-European root word dhwergwhos, meaning “something tiny”.

Dwarves of Khazad-dûm

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