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The Sindar, not yet acquainted with dwarves, thought the Petty-dwarves were animals, and hunted them. Not until the dwarves of the Ered Luin established contact with the Sindar did the latter realize what the Petty-dwarves were. Afterwards they were mostly left alone, but not before the Petty-dwarves came to hate all elves with a passion.Related content
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You know, what's important here is what is NOT explicitly said: the Sindar "thought the Petty-dwarves were animals, and hunted them." And why would one hunt animals? To eat them.
Elves ate dwarves. Something none of them will ever be able to accuse dwarves of. And considering that elves are immortal, some of them dwarf-eaters might even be still alive in the third age.
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Once more establishing the fact that elves are arogant, racist bastards that deserves whats comming for them: An axe to their pointy eared head!
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oh my!.. It seems you really hate them)
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Nah, don't really hate them, its just me channeling my inner dwarf from an rpg I played with some friends
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Wow, this is perhaps the best picture you have in your gallery! The emotions are so strong - the fear, confusion, desperation, fury... I love elves, but this breaks my heart, especially the fact, that the dwarves are holding only branches...
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This is just my interpretation. Perhaps the text implied that they took with them a real weapon, when they went out of their clans.
But thnks anyway
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I'm skeptical of elves explanation for this. They must have been lying to themselves. (Yes, I know the elves really did do this)
I also really hope they didn't eat them, if they insist they thought the petty dwarves were animals.
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What? No. It's Tolkien. It's not George Martin... Eat dwarfs?! No.
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yes but with tolkien, there are massacres, tortures and even an incestuous marriage then one more step in the horror ...
(no but serious, I still do not understand that the Elves did not find it weird that the "beasts" wear CLOTHES!) lol)
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Hahaha, I've never seen an image of it, and the first one stumbled across is perfect!
"Milord, the beasts wear clothes!"
"That's just body hair, shoot to kill!"
Poor petty dwarves. Getting sniped without provocation by those Sindar Elves. Characters, surroundings, lightplay. Very hard to improve upon here.
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Yeah that tends to happen when you kill members of certain race for hundreds if not thousands of years ...
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Not only. Remember the episode of Thingol. And I think there were other incidents that the author simply did not mention in the text.
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Wow... Tolkien could be really dark when he wants to
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You said it. And the whole Silmarillion is a compilation of grim bloody stories I think.
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I still remember the story that Glaurung sets in... It was terrifying...
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Indeed. But I was most touched by the story of Turin. Whatever he did, whatever he touched - everything collapses and dies. It's existential, hopeless and fatalistic part of the book. I don't like to read it. There's no hope.
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there is hope but not in Arda because Morgoth Bauglir defiled him with his evil, his creations and his manipulations. But it is said that at the end of time, when the Black Enemy of the World will return to destroy it, the Ainurs will compose a new Great Music in which the Elves and the Humans will participate and they will create a new Arda, liberated from Evil.
(and then frankly, if everything ended well as barbie or my little pony, it would not be serious XD)
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It is\was so stressing; very depressive; I'm surprised that even Tolkien wrote a story like that
Considering many people even young people do read the book
[( so sorry for my late replies; university finals are really a bad thing 
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If you are interested in reading something similar you should try "The Broken Sword" by Poul Anderson. It was released in the same year as LOTR and both Anderson and Tolkien were greatly influenced by the viking sagas and Beowulf. It is in a lot of places very like the Turin story.
When you read it you can see why the Silmarillion is as dark as it is.
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Great ! Thanks a lot for the infromation !
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Oh! I hope you didn't fail the exams? (thank God my study is over!)
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Thanks 
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Er.. I hope you will deal with it in the end)
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Thanks a lot
Keep uploading these awesome & talented artworks !
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Друг с другом они-то разговаривали. И во время нападений тоже, 100%. Плюс, даже на этой картине один из дварфов на коленях умоляет о пощаде. Животные себя так не ведут.
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Это ж какими надо быть тупыми, чтобы принять существ с языком, одеждой, культурой и т.д. за животных и охотиться на них.
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Вероятно, к тому времени они уже какое-то время были изгнанниками. Жизнь без крыши над головой придала им еще более дикий вид ну и.... кроме того вряд ли при встрече у них с эльфами было время на разговоры, чтобы остроухие успели проникнуться образованностью pettty-dwarves. Увидели кучку неопрятно выглядящих существ и приняли их за..скажем, гоблинов или еще какую живность работы Мелькора - вот вам и повод для прецедента.
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I don't know how I haven't seen your work before now but saying it's freaking amazing doesn't do any of it justice. What platform do you make these beauties on?
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Thanks) Embarrassing me, really^^
Only Photoshop CS2 + wacom tablet. No magic, I swear!)))
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The interesting thing is though that even the other Dwarves didn't accept them among their midst and when they were paid to build Nargothrond, they actually drove Petty-dwarves out of the place themselves.
So I wonder what happened that made the world turn against them so much?
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Well, I think the dwarves didn't like them because they willingly opened the secrets of their people (names on Khuzdul for example). And generally been smaller and more unsociable.
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I like the perspective you chose. The viewer gets to feel like their one of the hunters themselves.
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Everyone wants to be an elf for a while, isn't it?)
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I perfectly understand what you mean. Elves shouldn't fight dwarves and vice versa. Horrible misconceptions often lead to such slaughter...
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*cries* Yes... they do...
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"Wisest and Fairest" my foot! Just further proof that Orcs are just a regressed form of elf.
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Do not be so critical. Each race (probably except the Hobbits and Ents) committed some dastardly deeds.
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Actually no Dwarves are so uncorruptable by Evil that even Sauron's rings couldn't drive them to the same lengths Elves and Men were.
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Hmm, if you think about it... yes - there is a grain of truth).
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For what?) You have expressed your opinion. And thank you for that
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Nice seeing proper dwarves, i.e. they all have beards. Great artwork!
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Hug for beards!! Hug for beards!! It will become a new trend!
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Beautiful, graphic, horrifying and tragic.
I had a thought. You don't shrink from drawing what a lot of artists avoid in Tolkien's stories.
So here's a suggestion. How about drawing the twisting of elves into the first orcs?
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Oh my gosh! Then it will be a real challenge!
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