As the first proud Germanic dwarves arrived in England they were promptly re-named as the more humble "gnome".
Because they were adopted, the dwarves had a kind of free will not possessed by the dragons.
She wears leggings underneath her gowns and she isn't about to play housemaid to any dwarves, either.
Dwarves and dragons are both long-lived, compared to regular people, though the dragons are far longer lived.
Even white dwarves that are close in age to that of the universe still retain their heat.
Disney has been doing it since 1937 when the studio made Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
The paintings reveal the social layers of courtiers and lords, musicians and dwarves, victims and their blade-wielding sacrificers.
Dragons can live for ages, while dwarves seem to top out around a couple of centuries or so.
White dwarves are no longer capable of the nuclear fusion that sustains our Sun and most other stars.
Popular games in China typically feature elves, dwarves or characters that predate the past century of political turmoil.
Most people remember the original Snow White for the jolly, funny dwarves and Snow White finding her prince.
Inside, it is a dream sequence from a David Lynch film, minus dwarves.
Even the dwarves begin to realize that the meekest member of their company is a leader in his own right.
The elves always speak in refined British accents and the dwarves, well, you know what dwarves sound like at this point.
In fact, when the Dwarves finally get a hold of their hoard, all they want to do is sit on it.
The pile of inert wealth draws to it a creature even more greedy than the dwarves, as such a pile inevitably does.
Both Dragons and Dwarves have a fondness for possessing gold and jewels.
The book is a literary treasure of childhood, an adventure story with dwarves, wizards and elves in a world beyond conventional imagination.
And these weapons were taken around New Zealand wherever the dwarves went.
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The originals, presumably, are locked away, guarded by those dwarves in Moria.
The seven major competitors at that time were called the Seven Dwarves.
Little wonder that Tolkien rode the gusts of Zephyrus to worldwide fame with his writings on the adventures of Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves and dragons.
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How can we understand why Thorin Oakenshield has such a burning desire to find the lost treasures of the Dwarves and to reclaim their homeland?
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But the same American cultural superiority that clutches at pearls when it encounters Dutch revelers in blackface appears unconcerned by the stereotypical portrayal of dwarves as elves.
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Television revenue, ticket sales and sponsorship are key to Hamburg's enormous turnover of almost 190 million Euros - a figure that dwarves that of Rangers and Celtic.
Empire Magazine recently asked several members of the cast, plus director Peter Jackson, to name all of the dwarves who appear in the recently released movie.
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Many Icelanders still believe in supernatural creatures, and if there were a place where elves, dwarves and gnomes surreptitiously roamed, this otherworldly land would have to be it.
The dwarves, in their small way, are no less possessed, and the joke is that a hobbit, who wishes nobody ill, should help to lead them into temptation.
Shannara, a series that started in 1977 with The Sword of Shannara, is about a post-apocalyptic Earth where much of humanity has mutated into dwarves, gnomes, and trolls.
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Like the names of the thirteen dwarves in The Hobbit.
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