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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7265390" data-attributes="member: 58172">Yup. Tolkien invented a unique kind of Elf, a unique kind of Dwarf, and a unique kind of British ‘Hob’ (Brownie, house spirit).The only feature that the Tolkien Elf shares with the Norse Elf, is full human height.The Norse Elf is an animistic sky spirit, who lives in ‘heaven’, and who personifies sunlight, sunrays and the solar corona. They personify magic, luck, successful fate, sexuality, charm, enchantment, and superhuman beauty.The only feature that the Tolkien Dwarf shares with the Norse Dwarf is ... nothing?The Norse Dwarf is an animistic land spirit, who lives ‘underground’, inside rocks, and petrify into stone in direct sunlight. The Norse Dwarf is tall, fully human size. (Unlike the short German Saxon Dwarf.) The Norse Dwarf has black hair, sunless deathly pale skin, and personifies magic and technology, typically is a shapechanger, lethargic and antisocial, yet vengeful and competitive. The Dwarf is a source of luck too, like the Elf, but the Dwarf begrudges giving luck to anyone else, and is often tricked into doing so, which then provokes the Dwarven vengeance.D&D gets its Tolkien Elf and Tolkien Dwarf from Tolkien.</blockquote>