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Post by khyron1144 on Dec 29, 2003 18:39:46 GMT -5
Yes. In D&D and Discworld. In LotR it's not that obvious one way or the other. There was a Gary Gygax editorial in Dragon that said they most certainly do, and since Gary invented D&D his word is law as far as D&D is concerned.
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Black Phoenix
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Post by Black Phoenix on Dec 29, 2003 18:46:22 GMT -5
Yes, after all, in Lord of the Rings Gimli kept on rambling to Eowyn about how they were mistaken for dwarf men, and I am pretty sure that in DnD they are considered to have beards as well.
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Post by nodwyck on Jan 8, 2004 19:24:48 GMT -5
Dwarfs is Dwarfs. Gender is more or less optional. And what they do in private is um... private. They have no gender-specific pronouns.
Terry Pratchett's got it right.
Same goes for D&D (although I've seen some pretty disturbing pics of dwarf "females" w/o beard. must be the worst bit of 3E). Dwarf's honor can be seen in his beard, and they revere their hearthwardens (supposedly 'female'). To call a dwarf Beardless is an impolite way of asking the dwarf in question to display his skill with an ax. Why wouldn't all this apply to their females as well?
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