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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to Tolkien, In The Hobbit, the dwarves are inspired by the Jews and Jewish Diaspora. The Lonely Mountain is like Jerusalem/Palestine. [/quote] Source? Because there the dwarves are, in the first chapter of The Hobbit, eating pork pie.[/quote] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarves_in_Middle-earth#Jewish_history[/quote] [i] Tolkien elaborated on Jewish influence on his Dwarves in a letter: "I do think of the 'Dwarves' like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due to their own private tongue..." In the last interview before his death, Tolkien said "The dwarves of course are quite obviously, wouldn't you say, that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic, obviously, constructed to be Semitic."[/i] :shock: No, please, thank you.[/quote]
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