Talk:Norse dwarves
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Actually, the spelling "artefact" is also correct - it's just more British. Ausir 20:27, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Move to "Norse dwarfs"?
The correct plural of "dwarf" in any non-Tolkien context is "dwarfs". I'll move it when I have time, but there are too many links to this page for me to handle right now. If someone can run the renamebot, then please do. PhilHibbs 15:56, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Actually, currently both forms are considered correct, not only in Tolkien context. My Longman dictionary even gives "dwarves" first - it might have been incorrect earlier, but due to Tolkien's influence, it no longer is. Of course, it does matter which version is used by a particular writer (Tolkien uses dwarves, Pratchett uses dwarfs, some other fantasy works use one or the other), but when it comes to non-English works, like the Norse dwarves, the form used is irrelevant. Ausir 18:55, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I am not a native English speaker, but from what I know, Elves and Dwarves seem quite correct compared to similar word forms like leaf->leaves loaf->loaves. It looks like a valid rule in English to do that, and Tolkien was a philologist after all, so I guess he should have known :) --Arny 05:06, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Ah, there are few if any rules in English, especially UK English, and those there are, have exceptions and limits and riders and amiguities. Alex Law 05:45, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
No. There is no such thing as "dwarfs", or "elfs". Could be more correct, but the traditional is dwarves.--Midasminus 16:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removing Durinn link
At the begining, there is a link from Durinn (norse Dwarf) to Durin (Tolkien's dwarf). I'm removing the connection because even though one inspired the other, they're not the same dwarf. Compare that Dvalinn doesn't link to Dwalin (Tolkien) but rather the actual Dvalinn who pertains to Norse mythology.
[edit] "spontaneously generated"
I believe that sentence should be rephrased into something as "...like maggots were thought to...", since this way it looks as a fact that maggots actually get to being via spontaneous generation, which is of course incorrect. --Arny 14:37, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Funny, I read they were maggots given human shape.-- Nitron_Ninja_Apple 12:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merging Duergar into Norse dwarves
The two articles are duplicates. I think Norse dwarves is a better name than Dvergar (even if we have Jotun and not Norse giant, but dwarf is the literal translation of dverg, which is not the case of jötunn / giant). By the way, I wonder why we have Norse dwarves in plural and Jotun in singular. Sigo 16:25, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
