Why don't dwarves like magic?

[Kae'Yoss]

I don't know if you caught this. Pratchett's dwarves don't care what the other gender is. A homosexual relationship is seen as just as valid as a heterosexual one. Everyone is a dwarf.

No. The way I see it, it doesn't matter except in a marital relationship, and then only to the to the two dwarves that are married. They still don't have couples that have the same gender. But noone outside knows which one is the female. And they don't care.

 

[krichaiushii]

Here is an interesting take on why Dwarves are like they are:

http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/archetypology18oct01.html

The other articles in this series are equally fascinating.

 

[Rackhir]

Nitpick - the Silmarils were not divine - they were created by Feanor, an elf.

-The Sigil

To nitpick your nitpicking. The Silmarils were clearly portrayed as one of the greatest creations wrought by anyone Elven or Valar. They had a power that even the Valar had to respect (remember what just touching one did to Morgoth). They contained the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, which were one of the greatest creation of the Valar. Their creator may have been an elf, but his creation was clearly something far more.

 

[BOZ]

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[WizarDru]

They contained the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, which were one of the greatest creation of the Valar. Their creator may have been an elf, but his creation was clearly something far more.

Which was what I was thinking when I refered to them as divine...the fact that they Two Trees were a part of their making...and those clearly were divine.

But, as always, I bow to your Tolkien knowledge which far exceeds my own.