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Originally Posted by Apollonian
Did Tolkien ever go into why the Khazad prefer axes?
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Did they?
Gimli had an axe, but Thorin Oakenshield carried a sword. And after Thorin's company barricaded themselves in Erebor, they had bows to shoot at the man and elf "invaders".
It's been too long since I read The Hobbit to remember what the other dozen dwarves used.
And in the description of the room of Balin's tomb in Khazad-Dûm, we have
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Originally Posted by The Fellowship of the Ring
By both doors they could see now that many bones were lying, and among them were broken swords and axe-heads, and cloven shields and helms. Some of the swords were crooked: orc-scimitars with blackened blades.
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So some of the swords would have been straight-bladed dwarf swords, by inference.
So - some of Tolkien's dwarves preferred axes, and other preferred other weapons?
Luke