And now some poetry:
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If I were a man,
In a fantasy land,
I'd be a dwarf,
Of course.
They're covered in hair,
They have beer ev'rywhere,
And you'll never see one
On a horse.
That is not to say
That I'll never give way
To an elf, or a man,
Or an orc,
But given the choice
When I'm with the big boys,
There's no manlier man
Than a dwarf.
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@johnx61: While I agree with many of your racial analyses, I have yet to meet a fantasy
setting in which the dwarf females have beards, except an ambiguous Lord of the Rings quote:
Gimli: "It's true that 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."
Aragorn: "It's the beards."
Aragorn's line could imply that the beards of dwarf women make them look like dwarf men, but he might mean that dwarf women don't have beards, which is how one would distinguish them from dwarf men.
____________________
If I were a man,
In a fantasy land,
I'd be a dwarf,
Of course.
They're covered in hair,
They have beer ev'rywhere,
And you'll never see one
On a horse.
That is not to say
That I'll never give way
To an elf, or a man,
Or an orc,
But given the choice
When I'm with the big boys,
There's no manlier man
Than a dwarf.
____________________
@johnx61: While I agree with many of your racial analyses, I have yet to meet a fantasy
setting in which the dwarf females have beards, except an ambiguous Lord of the Rings quote:
Gimli: "It's true that 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."
Aragorn: "It's the beards."
Aragorn's line could imply that the beards of dwarf women make them look like dwarf men, but he might mean that dwarf women don't have beards, which is how one would distinguish them from dwarf men.
