Why did Dwarves build their homes 'big'?
Remember Dwarrodelf in the film? A HUGELY high ceiling, with massive
columns - so massive that no dwarf would have been able to reach even the top
of the pedestal.
Why does such a short race need to build their homes to such a enormous
scale?
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"Tolkien's achievement, it may be, was to reintroduce a heroic world view, drawn from the ancient texts he taught as a professor, to a world gone ironic. ... Peter Jackson has inevitably built up the action scenes and straightened the tangled threads, but the message survives the change of medium. Courage is what you need after you've lost hope: things may not be as bad as they seem. Tolkien learnt that nearly 90 years ago, but it isn't obsolete yet."
- Tom Shippey
Whaia te iti kahurangi. Ki te tuohu koe me maunga teitei.
Pursue excellence. If you bow your head, let it be to the lofty mountain.
