| @golawede: No. The plural has historically been dwarfs; Tolkien is responsible for the popularization of the change. In an appendix to Return of the King he wrote: "It may be observed that in this book as in The Hobbit the form dwarves is used, although the dictionaries tell us that the plural of dwarf is dwarfs... [M]emories have not been fresh enough among Men to keep hold of a special plural for a race now abandoned to folk-tales... But in the Third Age something of their old character and power is still glimpsed, if already a little dimmed... It is to mark this that I have ventured to use the form dwarves, and remove them perhaps, from the sillier tales of these latter days." |