Dwarves

Dwarves

Tolkien popularised "dwarves" as the plural of "dwarf" to differentiate his fantasy dwarves from humans with dwarfism, for whom the correct plural was "dwarfs". The dwarf trope became so entrenched that "dwarves" is now widely recognized as the standard plural of "dwarf" even for humans.

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