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I enjoyed reading that -- there are a lot of things that Tolkien hand-waves for the dwarves, isn't there? I loved that you wrote out one of them, and that you wrote about dwarven children coming-of-age. I've read a few of those now but not something explicitly as seen from the eyes of the elves. I do enjoy that just as they temper steel, so do they also temper young dwarves in a heat bath. Lovely!

Indeed, when I (admittedly rarely) end up writing Dwarves (and always for some kind of challenge), it feels very close to original fiction in terms of worldbuilding. He sure didn't give us much! I really do enjoy embroidering additional details amid what he does give us, however; I always enjoy Dwarf-centered stories, when I'm pressed to write them! :D

Thanks so much for reading and especially for commenting!