Having these headcanons is ofc fine, but I just don't personally like them. I feel like dwarves are often portrayed as an almost infantilized race that needs to be "saved" (where their culture is wrong, hobbit culture is "right") due to fanon/popular tropes and that bothers me.

....fandom tropes which is the EXTREMELY popular trope of "dwarves do not know agriculture" (contrary to canon dwarves) where Bilbo is the one to teach dwarves how to farm and feed themselves (I guess when they exist independently away from other races they just starve in this trope).

Though many fandom tropes are about the ways hobbits are "better" than dwarves. Like how Bilbo is often portrayed in fanwork as being more skilled and knowledgeable in ruling a dwarf kingdom than the dwarvish royal family is themselves, and this trope is often combined with one of my most hated...

Oh well, at least my tiktok is going well but who knows what is going to happen with the ban and the uhh, Tr*mp stuff

AAND they are scottish too

Oh yeah this bothers me too when it comes to lore fans, esp as everything in the legendarium is written by unreliable and biased narrators. I think in this case though it's because people just don't have the energy to read stuff (and because people get scared off by Silm)

Ohh I see! That was probably bsky.app/profile/dwar... 's headcanon post then!

Very interesting! Do you mean you've seen her on my socials or somewhere else?

HEENCE I decided Grór and other recorded Durin's Folk dwarves in the family tree (which does exclude all the women in the family except Dís) can and should be women even if they might largely be seen as male dwarves by other races. At least in my head, and it's more fun that way

The legendarium itself is unreliable, I subscribe to the fact that "Nothing can be trusted in the legendarium regarding the dwarves". All dwarves appear male to other races, so I feel the gender of recorded dwarves is extra unreliable. What if the legendarium is just mistaken?

tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Gr%C3%B3r I know you said ignore the question but I'll answer anyways, this is my own version of Grór (who I decided should be fem). I am not a canon compliant artist and one thing I dislike is the way the legendarium handles dwarvish women + relationships

This is why I put huge watermarks on my art : ' )

Very cool!

orc*** damnit

I have noticed a lot of people do not even consider reading the legendarium itself even when they actively have a strong interest in the topic. Though it may be because I operate in "The Hobbit" sphere where people are generally not well versed in non PJ movie lore? Idk