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- From: dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Dwarves want women (was Re: Melkor: Genetic Engineer?)
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 22:58:43 GMT
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- References: <BzpwuI.25I@max.physics.sunysb.edu> <1hb1joINN6sj@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec24.160925.23203@gssec.bt.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Dec24.160925.23203@gssec.bt.co.uk> cwilson@gssec.bt.co.uk (Colin Wilson) writes:
- >
- >If you read chapter 1, "An Unexpected Party", again you'll find that it wasn't
- >the dwarves' beards that had the various colours, but their HOODS.
-
- From the Hobbit, chapter 1:
-
- At the appearance of Dwalin:
-
- It was a dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt,
- and very bright eyes under his dark-green hood.
-
- At the appearance of Balin:
-
- Instead there was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with
- a white beard and a scarlet hood...
-
- At the appearance of Fili and Kili:
-
- It was two more dwarves, both with blue hoods, silver belts,
- and yellow beards...
-
- The colors of the other dwarves' beards are not mentioned, at least not
- at this point. They do have varied colored hoods, however.
-
- So I guess I was at least partially wrong. The only strange colored
- beard in evidence is Dwalin's blue beard. So what's the story? Is
- it a true blue beard, or a deep black or blue-washed white? Or does
- Dwalin just favor strange dyes?
-
- (Also, yellow seems a bit more extreme then a plain blond, but I'm willing
- to let it pass...)
-
-