According to some Tolkien scholars, the author’s heroic dwarves are a conscious inversion of Wagner’s negatively “Jewish” dwarves, meant to flip the switch on damaging stereotypes.

I suppose it never occurred to the poor boob that you could give them any other kind of music ... Tolkien’s take on dwarfs was different indeed—he even spelled the word differently: dwarves.

A new image from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 has revealed a first look at a Dwarf previously seen in the appendices to J.R.R. Tolkien's original Lord of the Rings trilogy.