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Originally Posted by Jim Kane
I have no literary reference which I can recall off the top of my head as to why Dwarves should be magically-resistant
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When describing the failure of the One Ring to enslave the seven Dwarf Lords, Tolkien writes that "the Dwarves had proved untameable by this means. The only power over them that the Rings wielded was to inflame their hearts with a greed of gold and precious things*, so that if they lacked them all other good things seemed profitless, and they were filled with wrath and desire for vengeance on all who deprived them. But they were made from their beginning of a kind to resist most steadfastly any domination".
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* so presumably those rings don't turn dwarves invisible, either. Inflicting greed is the "only" power.