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Originally Posted by Wayward Ho!  I don't remember any drunken dwarves in Tolkien's books, certainly not enough to make a stereotype. As for noble elves, well the Silmarillion puts pay to that notion too. Noble dwarves and drunken elves are more commonplace. I don't think Tolkien is to blame for these stereotypes at all, rather it was the generic fantasy that came after. Gimli in the Lord of the Rings films, for instance, has more in common with a World of Warcraft dwarf than the Gimli from the book. |
pedantic I grant you but Gimli in the book often goes on about the carousing of the dwarfs in their halls with Ale - go back to the hobbit and the dwarft there are food eating beer drinkin aplenty. Also we reference elves - at each turn the "younger" races have an awe of elves and THEY give them the "noble" inference... is we futher move on to the silmarillion Tolken correctly ads an "adult" view of the world - never forget theat the hobbit was completely designed as a childrens book so therefor needed the simplistic icons - the lord of the rings I think is fair to say has a foot in both camps of adult and child with the silm going to adult (not massively popular read btw)
Pre-Tolkien elves and such where seen as more childish in race - mostly not benign but slightly evil in their whims
