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What I want to know is, do Dwarf women have beards? Discuss. And please don't get verklemt.
 
WAB said:
What I want to know is, do Dwarf women have beards? Discuss. And please don't get verklemt.
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Depends on what your context of dwarf is, I think.

In Dwarf Fortress, for instance, the definition of the dwarf depends on the raw file. There is a token for whether they can have a beard, and if it's set to true, then they can have a beard. There is similarly one for whether they absolutely do have a beard.

This means that it is entirely arbitrary whether dwarves have beards in terms of dwarf fortress.

Likewise, in this world, it depends on the setting and mythos of dwarves one accesses; the Norse peoples liked beards and gave pretty much any man in any story a beard, and a lot of Svartalf lore is eventually transitioned to dwarves, or maybe they share a common ancestor myth, so it's unsurprising the dwarves have beards in most depictions.

If someone is to believe a dwarf into existence I their own mind, it will depend on the mythos they spin that character from, as well, what that person believes a dwarf is.

If we are talking small people, well, yes there are a few small people who are women that have beards. Some are proud of their beards I am sure, and some are not.
 
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Sorry, Jahryn, you're right. I should have said that I was talking about the Tolkien legendarium. There's a pleasant scene in one of the films where Aragorn, Eowyn, and Gimli are talking about dwarf women.
 
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Sorry, Jahryn, you're right. I should have said that I was talking about the Tolkien legendarium. There's a pleasant scene in one of the films where Aragorn, Eowyn, and Gimli are talking about dwarf women.
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Even then, Tolkien doesn't get to own his legacy entirely in that way.

Many follow-on renditions based on Tolkien have beards among the women, and many do not.

Sometimes there are even dwarven women in such tales (see: The Wandering Inn), where there are women of dwarven descent disappointed in their lack of beard growth.

This is clearly Tolkien influenced.

I'm not sure there was a line in the original source material about the instance of whether dwarven women had beards.
 
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I double dog dare you to start a similar thread about fairies.
 
Seriously, I would, but it would end up in Elsewhere.

I already have an idea about fairies. But I prefer the spelling: faeries.

There was a famous author who was fooled by one of the earliest known instances of photographic manipulation, wherein a photo purportedly showed a capture of real faeries.
 
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Seriously, I would, but it would end up in Elsewhere.

I already have an idea about fairies. But I prefer the spelling: faeries.

There was a famous author who was fooled by one of the earliest known instances of photographic manipulation, wherein a photo purportedly showed a capture of real faeries.
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I recall that.

Maybe it would or maybe it wouldn't.

Maybe it depends on how much you believe it will or won't.

You would get to see something, some of my crazy; a spectacle, but for a price.

But a price for whom?

For me or you?

Or perhaps for both, and neither.

And it'll be !!FUN!!
 
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Read a great fanfic back in the day which put Elrond in a Twelfth Night sort of a situation where he was slowly but confusedly falling in love with the Dwarf smith Narvi as they worked on the construction of the doors of Moria, only to discover in the final chapter that his same-sex, interracial affair... wasn't all of the above. She just had a fine beard.
 
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I very often wonder why some peoples didn't get very hairy. Like the native americans. Why do some people grow beards and others don't. And why does this one single hair grow at the top of my ear, even after I pluck it out?
 
There is only one right answer, provided by the only serious* authority on the issue:

Terry Pratchett said:
All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
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* A title he obtained by his resolute lack of seriousness, behind which he could say some very serious things indeed without getting crucified for them.
 
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bilby said:
There is only one right answer, provided by the only serious* authority on the issue:

Terry Pratchett said:
All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
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* A title he obtained by his resolute lack of seriousness, behind which he could say some very serious things indeed without getting crucified for them.
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Now we're back to DF descriptions, almost.

Yes, dwarves wear WAY too many layers of clothes, I agree.

The worst part is when their clothing starts to get old and they complain constantly they are wearing a single worn out sock, despite the fact you spent all year tailoring the other 100 pieces of fresh clothing for them...

And then they leave all that junk in their room without ever throwing it away, in a dresser where it cannot decay into nothing.
 
WAB said:
Sorry, Jahryn, you're right. I should have said that I was talking about the Tolkien legendarium. There's a pleasant scene in one of the films where Aragorn, Eowyn, and Gimli are talking about dwarf women.
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"[Dwarf women] are in voice and appearance ... so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart" - ROTK Appendix A.

I'd say this strongly implies they have beards...
 
Do Dwarf women have beards?

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No.

Well, some of them:

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WAB said:
Sorry, Jahryn, you're right. I should have said that I was talking about the Tolkien legendarium. There's a pleasant scene in one of the films where Aragorn, Eowyn, and Gimli are talking about dwarf women.
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"[Dwarf women] are in voice and appearance ... so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart" - ROTK Appendix A.

I'd say this strongly implies they have beards...
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Thanks for resolving the dispute, then!
 
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I very often wonder why some peoples didn't get very hairy. Like the native americans. Why do some people grow beards and others don't. And why does this one single hair grow at the top of my ear, even after I pluck it out?
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I cannot grow a beard. If I try it's a summer beard. Summer here, summer there.

I also have no hair on my arms and legs but a good amount on my chest and stomach area.

My brother in law could almost pass for a gorilla. So much hair he can't wear a sweater because his body hair gets tangled up in the knit.
 
I have very little body hair. Hardly visible chest or even underarm hair. But a VERY full beard, and even a decent amount of remaining head hair, though it has thinned in recent years. Go figure. One of my brothers has a back and chest full, the other one is pretty much “normal”.
 
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