Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Mountain Mine Moving Car Coaster

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ASilmser

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englanddg said:
Tolkein is credited for the increased popularity of what is now the second official plural, according to Merriam Webster. He wrote in his LOTR appedix (and yes, I had to google this part):

"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. It should be dwarrows (or dwerrows), if singular and plural had each gone its own way down the years, as have man and men, or goose and geese. But we no longer speak of a dwarf as often as we do of a man, or even of a goose, and memories have not been fresh enough among Men to keep hold of a special plural for a race now abandoned to folk-tales, where at least a shadow of truth is preserved, or at last to nonsense-stories in which they have become mere figures of fun. But in the Third Age something of their old character and power is still glimpsed, if already a little dimmed: these are the descendants of the Naugrim of the Elder Days, in whose hearts still burns the ancient fire of Aule the Smith, and the embers smoulder of their long grudge against the Elves; in in whose hands still lives the skill in works of stone that none have surpassed.

It is to mark this that I have ventured to use the form dwarves, and so remove them a little, perhaps, from the sillier tales of these latter days.Dwarrows would have been better; but I have used that form only in the name Dwarrowdelf, to represent the name of Moria in the Common Speech:Phurunargian. For that meant 'Dwarf-delving', and yet was already a word of antique form. But Moria is an Elvish name, and given without love..."
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Wow. . . just wow.
 
sshindel

sshindel

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marni1971 said:
There's another few kilobytes of wasted web...
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Wasted is in the eye of the beholder. I've had more fun in this thread then many recently.

Just wait until they reimagine the ride in a few years based on the sure-to-be runaway smash hit TV show "7D", coming soon to Disney Channel:

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/04/disney-re-imagines-the-7-dwarfs-as-hip-in-new-cartoon-series-7d/


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(Ok, now that I threw up in my mouth a little bit based on reading that article and the picture, I'm admittedly having less fun in this thread)
 
Tiggerish

Tiggerish

Resident Redhead
Premium Member
sshindel said:
Wasted is in the eye of the beholder. I've had more fun in this thread then many recently.

Just wait until they reimagine the ride in a few years based on the sure-to-be runaway smash hit TV show "7D", coming soon to Disney Channel:

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/04/disney-re-imagines-the-7-dwarfs-as-hip-in-new-cartoon-series-7d/


7d-600x588.jpg




(Ok, now that I threw up in my mouth a little bit based on reading that article and the picture, I'm admittedly having less fun in this thread)
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Oh, please, please tell me that's one of those parody websites and that's not really going to happen. :eek:
 
Master Gracey 5

Master Gracey 5

Active Member
englanddg said:
That's because Dwarfs is an acceptable, and in many ways traditional, plural for dwarf. Common usage of dwarves (and later acceptance of it) didn't come until recent years.

Go to an astronomy site, for example. They'll say "white dwarfs" not "white dwarves".

Tolkein is credited for the increased popularity of what is now the second official plural, according to Merriam Webster. He wrote in his LOTR appedix (and yes, I had to google this part):

"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. It should be dwarrows (or dwerrows), if singular and plural had each gone its own way down the years, as have man and men, or goose and geese. But we no longer speak of a dwarf as often as we do of a man, or even of a goose, and memories have not been fresh enough among Men to keep hold of a special plural for a race now abandoned to folk-tales, where at least a shadow of truth is preserved, or at last to nonsense-stories in which they have become mere figures of fun. But in the Third Age something of their old character and power is still glimpsed, if already a little dimmed: these are the descendants of the Naugrim of the Elder Days, in whose hearts still burns the ancient fire of Aule the Smith, and the embers smoulder of their long grudge against the Elves; in in whose hands still lives the skill in works of stone that none have surpassed.

It is to mark this that I have ventured to use the form dwarves, and so remove them a little, perhaps, from the sillier tales of these latter days.Dwarrows would have been better; but I have used that form only in the name Dwarrowdelf, to represent the name of Moria in the Common Speech:Phurunargian. For that meant 'Dwarf-delving', and yet was already a word of antique form. But Moria is an Elvish name, and given without love..."
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Speaking as a Tolkienite, thank you for that.
 

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