Why do dwarves have beards
On Athas , the planet of the Dark Sun campaign setting, every dwarf chooses a focus in life, one task that they will try to achieve with stubborn determination. Athasian dwarves do not live underground, but some communities focus on uncovering buried dwarven strongholds from the Green Age.
Physically, the dwarves of Athas are unique in that they have no hair at all, contrary to the image of beard-laden dwarves in more traditional campaign settings. Athasian dwarves can breed with humans to produce muls , who are sterile offsprings that share the strength and resiliency of dwarves with the size of humans. In the Dragonlance setting, gully dwarves, or Aghar "the Anguished" are thought to be the offspring of gnomes and dwarves.
Gully dwarves are first referred to in the Dragonlance Chronicles , by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman , as a "miserable lot. Like dwarves, they are clannish, and several clans live together, following the rule of their chieftains or one particular powerful leader.
Females lack whiskers on their chins but have them on their cheeks, and may wear tattered overskirts wrapped around their waists extending to their knees. Despite their wretched appearance, gully dwarves generally lead a cheerful existence, though they are incredibly unintelligent creatures. Only a few gully dwarves can conceive of any number higher than 'two' often counting things as "one and one and one and one--not more than two!
Dwarves in the World of Greyhawk setting are called dwur by the Flan , and are found throughout the Flanaess.
Browse wiki. Cities Dungeons Realms and kingdoms Settlements. Not exactly discreet, so yes, they did have beards From the movie ; Gimli to Eowyn on the way to Helms Deep:. Gimli: It's true you don't see many Dwarf women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for Dwarf men. Gimli: And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no dwarf women, and that Dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground!
Which is, of course, ridiculous. Eowyn: [Laughing] src. Q : Did Dwarf women have beards? A : It seems they did. In the note on Dwarf women in Appendix A it was told: It was said by Gimli that there are few dwarf-women, probably no more than a third of the whole people. They seldom walk abroad except at great need.
They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart. The Return of the King, App A ] Since beards were part of the appearance, not the garb, of dwarf-men, we must conclude that dwarf-women did in fact have beards.
The question has been raised as to whether all dwarf men necessarily had beards the above conclusion depends upon this premise. Insofar as the matter was mentioned at all, it was shown through either direct statements or casual references that at least Thorin, Dwalin, Balin, Fili, Kili, Gloin, Bombur, and Gimli all definitely had beards The Hobbit, , , , ; The Fellowship of the Ring, ; The Return of the King, ; it is natural to assume that the others did as well.
While no definite statement about the beard status of dwarf-men in general was ever presented as a matter of lore, a thought which reflects the assumed view was given to Bilbo early in the The Hobbit: [as Bilbo rode along wearing Dwalin's hood] "His only comfort was that he couldn't be mistaken for a dwarf, as he had no beard.
The movie is not expected to be seen only by LOTR fans and former readers. Probably there are thousands if not millions of possible spectators that won't have even known that female dwarves had beards, even after Aragorn's joke in "The Two Towers". This means that representing bearded female dwarves in the movie would probably make them pass undetected by many viewers, and would surely create uncomfortable questions for many others. It is more than probable that the use of a "more traditional female aspect" on dwarven females was a production mandate to fulfill the political correctness that's expected from a family movie.
And I'm quite convinced of it after seeing that not all dwarves in the movie had "dwarven facial traits".
You can see several dwarves with heavy facial dwarven identity, while others Thorin and Fili, for example are far more human of a bearded class. The marketing of a movie forces directors often to concede on not always minor aspects to keep producers aka money happy. Handsome dwarves and human-like female dwarves are probably one of many minor aspects to which Peter Jackson had to adjust. I presume that we'll see bearded female dwarves in the future extended versions of the movies maybe interpreted by Peter's daughter?
The female dwarf in the section where Smaug attacked the Dale had fluffy sideburns. I thought it was a compromise. I recall watching an interview with Richard Armitage in which they mentioned the lack of Female Dwarves during the scene when Bilbo was writing about Erebor. He said that female Dwarves had beards so they might have just missed them. So, according to him there were female Dwarves there and they had beards. Possibly the ones seen fleeing Erebor were still quite young and hadn't grown into their beards yet.
As with most IRL ethnicities, not only are people often considered "indistinguishable" by outgroups as in "all chinese look alike" or "all blacks look alike" —often uttered by people with few or no friends of these ethnicities.
There also is a tendency to exaggerate so-called "identifiers" and elevate them to "racial" —even racist— stereotypes.
Remember how Frida Kahlo vindicated this "moustache"? Look up pictures of her, and you will see it wasn't that dark or all that "shocking". Hence the fuzz, as in above images, that may or may not be shaved, trimmed, bleached or hidden, depending upon the status, traditions and practices in said dwarven subculture or family. This interpretation takes into account that Tolkien's books are considered being written by ELves or Humans… both outgroups to the dwarves.
Another idea may be that most dwarves are on the contrary extremely jealous of their women appearing in public echoing many human cultures IRL , which may render concepts of the "female dwarf" as something only dwarves could have information on.
Did Dwarf women have beards? Loos It seems they did. In the note on Dwarf women in Appendix A it was told: It was said by Gimli that there are few dwarf-women, probably no more than a third of the whole people. They seldom walk abroad except at great need.
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