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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5142055" data-attributes="member: 80487">Whence that stereotype, anyhow? Was it Gimli in Peter Jackson's "Ring" movies? (I don't remember the actor's accent.)They have in my mind always been associated primarily with the Nordic and Germanic tales. The Scots have their blood-thirsty powries or red caps, rather of the "goblin" persuasion, but that's as close as I recall to distinctively Celtic Dwarves.Thoroughly human dwarfs -- or just tribes with physiques of diminutive but usual proportions, often aboriginal and using older technology -- seem often associated in tradition, in many parts of the world, with magical lore, and thereby sometimes conflated with local fairy folk.In that sense, the Picts who captured Robert E. Howard's imagination (e.g., his tragic hero Bran Mak Morn) might count as "dwarfs" -- although I think they are more commonly associated with the term "elf-shot".I expect the real answer is more along the lines of a Mike Myers comedy routine, or maybe a video game -- or those Jackson movies.Many animated films, or puppet features such as Henson's The Dark Crystal, may come to mind, and anthropomorphic animals in books ranging from The Wind in the Willows (which I think includes humans as well) to the Redwall series.</blockquote>