Editing Dwarves in Middle-earth (section)

=== Norse myth ===

{{further|Tolkien and the Norse}}

In Tolkien's ''[[The Book of Lost Tales]]'', the very few Dwarves who appear are portrayed as evil beings, employers of [[Orc (Middle-earth)|Orc]] mercenaries and in conflict with the [[Elf (Middle-earth)|Elves]]—who are the imagined "authors" of the myths, and are therefore biased against Dwarves.<ref name="Evans 2013 (Drout)">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Evans |first=Jonathan  |author-link=Jonathan Evans (scholar) |title=Dwarves |editor-last=Drout |editor-first=Michael D. C. |editor-link=Michael D. C. Drout |encyclopedia=[[The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia]] |year=2013 |orig-year=2007 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=Abingdon, England |isbn=978-0-415-86511-1 |pages=134–135}}</ref><ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1984|loc="Gilfanon's Tale"}}</ref><ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1984|loc="The Nauglafring"}}</ref> Tolkien was inspired by the [[Norse dwarves|dwarves of Norse myths]]<ref>{{cite book |first=Thomas |last=Shippey |author-link=Thomas Shippey |title=[[J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century]] |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |location=London, England |isbn=978-0-262-10401-2 |orig-year=2000 |year=2001 |pages=14–17}}</ref><ref name="chance">{{cite book |last=Burns |first=Marjorie J. |author-link=Marjorie Burns |chapter=Norse and Christian Gods: The Integrative Theology of J.R.R. Tolkien |editor-first=Jane |editor-last=Chance |editor-link=Jane Chance |title=Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader |year=2004 |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |location=Lexington, Kentucky |isbn=0-8131-2301-1 |pages=163–178}}</ref> and of later Germanic folklore<!--same article as prev. link, Norse dwarves--> (such as that of the [[Brothers Grimm]]), from whom his Dwarves take their characteristic affinity with mining, metalworking, and crafting.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html |title=Grimm Brothers' Home Page |last=Ashliman |first=D. L. |website=www.pitt.edu |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh]] |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/dwarves/ |title=Dwarves |last=McCoy |first=Daniel |website=Norse Mythology}}</ref>