#the dwarves in the hobbit

[bluecoolr]

Y'all gotta stop me from giving Darron and Baeron another older brother

[maedictus]

A couple of Thorin drawings

[s-u-w-i]

Thorin and Company collab with @chechula for our 2025 calendar! ✨🎺🎻🥁 My sketches, her lines. Thorin, Bilbo, Kili, Fili, Bifur, Oin

[mathelaw]

sharing my favorite type of cultural misunderstanding that i barely see between these two

[fantasyinallforms]

"The Hobbit movies aren't accurate. The Hobbit's movies made the dwarves too hot"

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Shhhhhh.... shh

Look into my eyes right now and know I'm being so serious.

I. Don't. Care.

I don't care that it's basically Tolkien fan fiction. I'm under no delusion that it's accurate, I know the studio used the movies as a money grab insted of letting PJ do what he actually wanted. I KNOW. We *all* know.

I still don't care. It brings me joy.

[shurikthereject]

Thorin with a golden harp.

This painting was something! The sudden want to draw Thorin playing his harp was too strong to just make a doodle out of it and leave it in my sketchbook. It has been a while since I've done fully rendered paintings and I'm very proud at how it turned out.

[as-kind-as-summer]

After learning how unhinged Mirkwood used to be do you think Legolas ever just drops the most wild childhood trauma on the Fellowship trying to be relatable and they just look at him like...no. No we did not all go through that.

[mrkida-art]

Young dwarf Thorin

[basil--and--sage]

Reshirement AU, in which Thorin and Bilbo decide to get married and celebrate their stag nights following their respective cultural traditions.

Thorin sits with his family and friends in Bag End and gets his hair braided and himself pampered, while they talk about his hopes and dreams for his upcoming marriage. He blushes frequently.

In the meantime, Bilbo gets cheered on by about 60 of his relatives, while he does a keg stand.

[pyropixiesposts]

[aris-middleearth]

The Lonely Mountain🏔️

My favorite scene in the film!!

May 11th, 2022 - February 15th 2023 (I spent so much time on it😭)

Photographed under lamplight (the daylight version could be found in my posts)

[s-u-w-i]

Lonely Mountain and a few more dwarfs, collab with @chechula 🐉🥁 Also for the 2025 calendar.

[golfwolfmagazine]

Tolkien doesn't get enough credit for his excellent description of just how shitty it would be to float down a river in (or on) a barrel.

[skydaemon]

so we (and by we, i mean the very specific overlap of jews and nerds among whom i make my home) talk a lot about how tolkien's dwarves, in both the books and movies, were likely influenced by certain jewish stereotypes. obsessed with gold/wealth, secretive (especially about their language and religion), refugees from their ancestral home, portrayed with big, sometimes hooked, noses and interesting facial hair, and most specifically: the favourite little meow meows of one particular god, causing them to be shunned and persecuted by other races and creeds. this is likely unintentional, coming from the subconscious of tolkien in the same way orcs were "based on mongols" (ew colonialism) and activating subconscious biases/stereotypes in the people who designed the dwarves for the movies. it's subtext, albeit subtext that influenced the next eighty years of fantasy.

but what i don't see much discussion of is the fact that in terry pratchett's discworld, it's intentional. terry pratchett's dwarves are, more or less, jews.

carrot is a human adopted by dwarves, based on human standards. but within dwarf culture, he IS a dwarf. specifically, he has undergone specific rituals and memorised certain passages, making him LEGALLY a dwarf. this is basically how conversion works in judaism. indeed, as in judaism, it's considered rude to even mention that carrot is six feet tall and obviously wasn't born into the culture he has adopted.

the dwarves also have internal rifts - there are a group of 'orthodox' dwarves who consider the dwarves in ankh-morpork (who have adopted other customs and don't follow traditional roles) not to be dwarves at all, and don't recognise carrot as a dwarf for the same reason. they believe that the way to be a dwarf is to live in an all-dwarf community and follow their traditional rules, while other dwarves believe they need to change with the times and integrate (at least somewhat) with larger society. jewish as fuck.

there's also the interaction of dwarves with gender. when cherie comes out as female (which isn't a recognised gender by dwarvish society) she is ostracised for taking on the feminine roles common to other discworld races. however, she could never THINK of cutting off her beard, because she is still a dwarf. i see parallels with women in judaism taking on roles traditionally considered 'masculine' (e.g., as rabbis, wearing tallit and kippot) and the acceptance of queer people into jewish communities. there's lots of great discussion about cherie as a trans character on tumblr, btw.

finally, something that particularly strikes me is the line from carrot in tfe, where he says that the biggest dwarf city on the disc is ankh-morpork. obviously all diaspora communities can relate, but it's really something to know that new york is the city with the most jews in the world (960k to jerusalem's 570k. btw, 3rd is LA!).

i just love that, again, consciously or unconsciously, pratchett incorporated more positive elements of jewish culture into his portrayal of the dwarves.

[shurikthereject]

Yet another sketchbook spread, this time with more dwarves! Man its so sad that theyve decided to get rid of Dwalin's mohawk, he looks so cool with it! I really like this headcannon(?) dynamic between Nori and Dwalin in which he is a guard and constantly chases after Nori for his crimes so i sorta tried to incorporate that into the illustration. Balin was such a delight to draw, he wouldve LOVED gramophones.

[msbilberry]

The night before the battle.

Dwarves in the Lonely Mountain: build fortifications, put on armor, choose weapons.

Meanwhile, Bilbo and co. in Thranduil's camp tent: