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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Also, many worlds lean too much on Tolkien. Elves don't HAVE to be in the West, don't HAVE to have their own home to which they want to return all the time (even further West), Dwarves don't NEED to be stone-loving, hammer-wielding fighters that live under mountains.
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If they don't live under mountains and deal in stone and metal, then how are they dwarfs?
Tolkien didn't invent/define dwarfs, he just used the pre-existing mythologies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_(Germanic_mythology)