My fellow Massassians, I have been greviously wronged.

I'll admit it; I'm a huge dwarf fan. When I game, I'm always a dwarf. In arcade games and RPG's, once again the dwarf. It's something about that impetuousness combined with architecthural genius that really impresses me about them. And no, I'm not a squat, burly fellow with a huge beard.

The thing that especially ticked me off about the entire filmographic rendition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was the fact that the noble dwarves were relegated to the position of comic relief. This was not only through the design of the script, but it became a habit of the audience, as dwarvish credibility was slowly degraded through practical joke after practical joke. By the time RotK came out, even a serious line by Gimli would elicit giggles from the audience. I was outraged.

The elves, who are comparatively girly twits are made out to be honorable and inspiring figures, and the hobbits who are smaller and goofier than any dwarf ever could be are taken seriously. But the mighty dwarves? No one cares about them.

That is why I feel that a mighty injustice has been done upon my dwarvish kin. And the powers that be can only redeem themselves by a film of The Hobbit that makes the 'grim dwarves' who arrive near the end truly awe-inspiring. My fellow likeminded dwarffans and I anxiously await the day upon which we can finally reveal our dwarvish affinities to the world without fear of similar snickers.

yes, and i want my damn Goblins

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Pfft. Please. There's a reason why dwarves are -2 charisma.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it

I want my wargs.

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All the prism in the world couldn't make hue.

Dude, I dunno what you're talking about -- Gimli was awesome and obviously superior than at least Legolas -- I used Gimli in the RotK game anyway

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Tolkien used dwarves to represent the Jews.

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Superstition brings bad luck.
-Raymond Smullyan, 5000B.C.

Nobody tosses a Jew?

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
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Nobody.

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Big mistake. Legolas kicked *** in that game, especially once he got armor-penetrating arrows that fired two at a time.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it

What does he have to do with this?

If dwarves = Jews, then Woody Allen = King of All Dwarves.

I could only beat TTT game with Gimli.

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It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
BABIES EVERYWHERE!!!

Grismath, you are my hero.
What about Gold Dwarves Wolfy?

Hey, don't pull that on me. I don't have the friggin' Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it

Drow forever!
my friend likes dwarfs because they are strong, I say GO ELFS!

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When you expect the pain - nothing left to ascertain
When you respect the lie - Deadly chasm open wide
---Circle of Dust "Chasm"

Peronally, I'm biased towards humans and to a lesser extent elves fantasy-wise, but it does bother me how dwarves exist only for comic relief in most fantasy movies... and it's the same way in Dungeons and Dragons the movie, so it's not like LotR started a trend in that area or anything.

To be fair, Gimli played the comic relief role in the book, too. And the extended editions make him much cooler.



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"Well, it could be worse -- it could be windy!" -popular Canadian saying.

I like Orcs. I play as a half orc in NWN.

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Prowling out of the tundra, swinging a jeweled meat hammer, cometh Outlaw Torn! And he gives a gutteral bellow:

"I'm seriously going to hump you until you scream like a banshee!"

Orcs? Too stinky...

Edit: Wow, bad grammer.
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I check my e-mail

[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited March 09, 2004).]

Kobolds! Kobolds kobolds kobolds!

Dwarves are good too though.

In the realms of despair mud i'm always a pixie just because affect-fly is so frelling useful, and we have the best nation as well, even if all our damn stat-points tend to go into charisma

I was very highly gratified in lotr that they actually referenced dwarven women as having beards too, i was all w00t! because that's usually totally overlooked or whatever in fantasyish settings [mad props to Pratchett for getting it right as well].

I always joke with my friend about my rampant crush on Gimli, cuz it seems like everyone's got these things for omgelijahwood or omgorlandobloom or whatever, so i decided to just go for variety

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