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Dwarves is an American punk band formed in Chicago, Illinois, as The Suburban Nightmare, in the mid-1980s.
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Dwarves and is
The more Dwarves there are, the better it is.
The name is taken from the same source as all the other Dwarf names ( save Balin ) in The Hobbit: the " Catalogue of Dwarves " in the Völuspá.
The Lonely Mountain: Lair of Smaug the Dragon is a board game produced in 1985 by Iron Crown Enterprises, designed by Coleman Charlton which features groups of adventurers, either Dwarves, Elves, Orcs or Men entering Smaug's Lair to capture his treasure before he awakens.
The dwarves ' characteristics of being dispossessed of their homeland ( the Lonely Mountain, their ancestral home, is the goal the exiled Dwarves seek to reclaim ), and living among other groups whilst retaining their own culture are all derived from the medieval image of Jews, whilst their warlike nature stems from accounts in the Hebrew Bible.
The Dwarves ' written language is represented on maps and in illustrations by Anglo-Saxon Runes.
In The Lord of the Rings Tolkien writes that they breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry ; also, female Dwarves look and sound ( and dress, if journeying — which is rare ) so alike to Dwarf-males that other folk cannot distinguish them, and thus others wrongly believe Dwarves grow out of stone.
In the essay " Of Dwarves and Men " in The Peoples of Middle-earth it is written that Dwarven and human communities often formed relationships where the Men were the prime suppliers of food, farmers and herdsmen, while the Dwarves supplied tools and weapons, road-building and construction work.
In The Silmarillion, it is stated that the Dwarves were originally divided into seven clans or " Houses ".
Almost nothing is known of the histories of the other four Houses, except that they each sent a contingent west to fight in The War of the Dwarves and Orcs in the late Third Age, and their names:
It is said that the Dwarf population began to dwindle because most male Dwarves did not desire wives, or could not find one that they desired.
Yet much is still left a mystery in Dwarven history ; the Dwarves ' true fate is left unknown.
In Peter Jackson's live action adaptation of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Gimli's character is occasionally used as comic relief and several of his appearances are intended to emphasize the difference between the Dwarves and Elves.
Durin is the name of seven Kings of Dwarves in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.
The Dwarves believe that after they die their spirits remove to halls Aulë has set aside for them, and their role will be to rebuild Arda after the Final Battle that is yet to come.
This section, sometimes called " Dvergatal " (" Catalogue of Dwarves "), is usually considered an interpolation and sometimes omitted by editors and translators.
In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote that Mithril is found only in Khazad-dûm ( Moria ) in Middle-earth, where it is mined by the Dwarves.
In Norse mythology, Nidavellir ( Dark fields ) is one of the Nine Worlds and home of the Dwarves.
In Norse mythology, Hreiðmarr is the avaricious king of the Dwarves, who captured three gods with his unbreakable chains.
The best known is a German version collected by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as, " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs " ( or Dwarves ).
Word is brought to the kin of the Dwarves and their army perpetrates the first Sack of Doriath.
Dwarves and punk
Garage punk bands from all over — such as Medway's Thee Mighty Caesars, Chicago's Dwarves, and Adelaide's Exploding White Mice — pursued a version of punk rock that was close to its roots in 1960s garage rock.
By this time the Dwarves had dropped their early psychedelic sensibilities and morphed into a hardcore punk band.
Around the turn of millennium, the Dwarves developed more of a manic pop punk influence.
Some of this dialogue was sampled by the California punk band The Dwarves on their recording of a cover version of the Troggs song, " Strange Movies ".
He occasionally performs with punk band The Dwarves under the alias Dutch Ovens.
Dwarves and band
In, Gandalf arranged ( and frequently accompanied ) a band of thirteen dwarves and the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins to reclaim from the dragon Smaug the Dwarves ' lost treasure in Erebor.
After the ensuing Battle of the Five Armies, in which the Eagles, the Elves of Mirkwood, the Men of Dale, and the Dwarves of the Iron Hills ( as well as Thorin's band ) defeated an invading horde of Goblins and in which Thorin was killed, his cousin Dáin II Ironfoot, already King of the Iron Hills, became King Under the Mountain, and the Lonely Mountain was not abandoned again.
In 2004 the band released The Dwarves Must Die, its first LP for the indie label Sympathy for the Record Industry, which featured guest appearances from Dexter Holland ( The Offspring ), Nick Oliveri ( Queens of the Stone Age ), Nash Kato ( Urge Overkill ), and voice actor Gary Owens.
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* HeWhoCannotBeNamed ( musician ) ( born c. 1970 ), member of band Dwarves
Mondo Generator is a band fronted by Dwarves / Queens of the Stone Age member Nick Oliveri.
Dwarves and formed
The usual Sindarin name was Noegyth Nibin ; other include Nibin-Nogrim and Noegoethig, formed of nibin (" petty ") and one of the Elvish names for the true Dwarves.
The Dwarves of Belegost helped them escape, as their forces formed a sort of rearguard, holding off Glaurung.
" Little Green Dwarves ", but more accurately considered equivalent to the phrase " Little Green Men ) is a successful rock trio from Argentina, formed in 1979 in the city of Mendoza.
No Dwarves of these lines appear in the tales ; however, as noted below, the Longbeards may be formed out of Dwarves from all lines, and Dwarves from Durin's Folk may therefore have ancestors from these other lines.
By this version of the story, Durin's Folk were formed out of Dwarves from the other six lines, as a mixed people arose when all Dwarves went to Gundabad.
Dwarves and Chicago
The original members of the Dwarves began making music together in the mid-1980s as teenagers in the Chicago garage rock outfit, Suburban Nightmare, which was compared to The Sonics, and which has been described as part of the Paisley Underground scene.
Dwarves and .
The runic alphabet used by the Dwarves of Middle-earth was adapted by J. R. R.
Although the Cirth were later largely replaced by the Tengwar ( which were enhanced and brought by Fëanor ), they were adopted by Dwarves to write down their Khuzdul language ( Angerthas Moria and Angerthas Erebor ) because their straight lines were better suited to carving than the curved strokes of the Tengwar.
Dwarves are literally made of stone and exist as manifest rigid inflexible laws of creation, while elves are intelligent, mobile plants.
Dwarves appearing in numbers all over Poland aroused the interest of both Polish pedestrians and the militia, whose intervention led to short term arrests of the graffiti artists.
Units shown: Berserks, Dwarves, Warlocks, Brigands, Bowmen ( off-screen ) and Mauls.
These were mostly used for inscriptions, and later were replaced by the Tengwar, except among the Dwarves.
When writing The Hobbit in the early 1930s Tolkien gave the name Gandalf to the leader of the Dwarves, the character later called Thorin Oakenshield.
The Wizards were commanded to aid Men, Elves, and Dwarves, but only through counsel ; it was forbidden to use force to dominate them — an injunction Saruman disregarded.
He turned up again, however, before the walls of Erebor disguised as an old man, revealing himself when it seemed the Men of Esgaroth and the Elves of Mirkwood would fight Thorin and the Dwarves over Smaug's treasure.
* The secret language of the Dwarves: Khuzdul.
Several independent languages were drafted as well, an example being Khuzdul, the language of the Dwarves.
After Smaug's death, the Dwarves claimed the treasure as theirs by birthright.
The Dwarves ' leader, Thorin Oakenshield, refused to share the treasure as long as they stood in arms before his gate, and declared war on both of them.
Conflict was avoided by the arrival of the Goblin and Warg army who wanted the treasure out of greed, and the Dwarves decided to ally with the Elves and Men to fight this greater evil in what became known as the Battle of Five Armies.
Erebor became the home of the Folk of Durin, a clan of Dwarves known as the Longbeards, after they were driven from their ancestral home of Khazad-dûm.
Under Thrór's reign, Erebor became a great Dwarven stronghold, where the Dwarves became a numerous and prosperous people.
The Dwarves of Erebor were at that time well known to be skilled in the making of matchless weapons and armour, and there was great demand for their work by the surrounding peoples.
The Longbeards amassed a large treasure hoard during this time, perhaps due to Thrór possessing one of the Seven Rings of the Dwarves.
Thus Bilbo, Thorin, and Thorin's company of twelve other Dwarves travelled to the Lonely Mountain to regain the treasure.
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