Why are dwarves associated with technology?

>inb4 2/3 of the entire thread talks about the movies
>again
Please /tv/, leave. We had this already. They forge, they live underground and you need technologies to to make the underground habitable.

>>52519050
Because dwarfs are industrious. Industrious-industry-technology.

They are associated with craftsmanship.
They take a known concept and autismo over it to the point of it becoming extremely nice and valuable.
They don't drive fundamental science/technological innovation the way gnomes do, and they don't make sords as applied objects of art the ways elves do. They just take a sord and make it an excellent sord because they obsess every step of the way. Like bearded unwashed hardcore linux users argue over which distro is better instead of doing fun things like algorithms. And even if they did algorithms they'd just obsess over crap like conventions.

>>52519128
It's sword, anon.

>>52519161
Fuck you what the fuck do you know I killed 4 men

Expertise in mining leads to expertise in engineering.

Realistically the dwarven race is one Raindwarf away from establishing the difference engine in most settings.

>>52519050
Because Israel gave us the flash drive, Merkava tank, Tavor rifle, some desalination technology, etc

They truly are an inspiration

>>52519050
That's just "their thing". Fantasy races should have something more than height to differentiate them.

Because they don't have magic. What else are they supposed to do?

>>52519100
Don't want to argue about the LOTR dwarves or movies in terms of concept, but holy shit that scene is total crap. I would've laughed out loud if this was in the theatrical release.

>>52519325
>What else are they supposed to do?
Drink heavily.

Because the dwarves were the source of all sorts of artifacts in norse mythology I guess. Crap like superb boats that could be folded into a pocket hankerchief, glowing boars crafted from pig skin, and gold rings that made copies of themselves.

>>52519367
Like in The Witcher?

Because Tolkien based Dwarves on Jews and Jews are smart

>>52519050
The biggest cinema letdown I had since I've chosen Mummy 3 over Kung-Fu Panda.

>>52519050
Dwarves are mechanically minded and are tinkerers, in general lore.

Because the alternative is to have gnomes in your setting

>>52519050
Why is your mom associated with all those pies?

>>52519050
Is that an edit? Because I for the life of me can't remember those things.

>>52519578
>it's a "subhuman ape hates gnomes" episode

>>52519801
Bilbo Goldstein go home!

>>52519825
GNOMES ARE THE BEST
>hot
>smart
>beat everyone

>>52519050
Are they really? Gnomes and goblins are more associated with technology in my experience.

>>52520205
Gnomes and gobbos are more experimental and unstable, while dwarves are more about simpler technology polished and refined to the limit.

>>52519325
>Because they don't have magic
That's stupid. You must be stupid.

>>52519050
Because every since fucking ancient Germanic myths when Dwarves were just Dark Elves, they were associated with metallurgy and smithing which naturally moves into the idea of technology.
Try google next time, nerd.

>>52519639
The extended cut of the film has a dwarf/elf battle which is honestly the only good part of the film.

The elves get BTFO.

>>52519128
I just love how you used autismo as a verb.

>>52519449
In general lore they're magical craftsmen

>>52519050
Dwarves traditionally have a thing for metal, both acquiring various metals and they're typically described as being excellent smiths. It's a relatively short jump from making the best weapons/armor/etc to making clockwork gadgets and so on.

Dwarves are also typically portrayed as being sort of the opposite of Elves, and Elves have their whole nature schtick. Nature is typically portrated as being the opposite of technology.

And finally, they also typically live underground and make all sorts of clever hidden doors and the like. That's also getting pretty technological.

>>52519050
That is one of the most genuinely ridiculous things I have ever seen.

>>52519325
Honestly the stupid battle shit was the closest part of that movie to redeemable. It was shlock of the highest degree but it was fun on a mindless level.

Sure better than the dialogue.

>>52519050
I suppose if you could get those anti-arrow things to work they'd be pretty effective.

Thing is, you'd need to hit your enemy's clump of arrows in midair, you'd want to hit their army when the things land, and any sort of volley fire would fuck them over.

So I suppose they're a pretty reasonable thing to use against Tolkein Elves.

>>52523063

Not to mention mining goes hand in hand with the concept of the Industrial Revolution. Mining is slow, shitty work. It's an easy logical step to building something to make it easier.

>>52519128
I always saw dwarves and gnomes as conceptually pretty redundant. You could easily have them be one race and nobody would bat an eye.

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>>52519050
>Why are dwarves associated with technology?

Well from what I always understood; in ye olde times Dwarves made all the shit the Gods used: Thor's hammer most prominently and the Doors that opened up to the various other (painted) worlds within the Yggdrasil multi-verse.

Like, they weren't even that great at clothing themselves; they'd just DIG and MINE and SMITH.

>>52523526
That was ridiculous but this is just retarded. Poor Ian McCellen.

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>>52519050

They live underground. All they do is mine and smith all day.

>>52523526
what the cunting fuck?

>>52524755
And drink, don't forget drinking.

what the fuck are those ballistae?

>>52519296

only two of those things are useful, and israel did not invent the flash drive, lol

>>52525151
Cell phones?

>>52519050
they had to develop complex machinery to fend off the mammoths and kobolds.

>>52519050
Because most people riffing Tolkien weren't paying enough attention to know that Orcs were the metaphor for industry.

>>52525176

lots of people were working towards mobile phones, seems juggernaut US phone companies had engineers that developed the concept

>>52525228

don't need anything advanced to fend off a kobold, just make a squad with an axeman and issue a kill order

>>52525329
Go dig out adamantine, cunt.

>>52519296
you forgot the uzi

>>52523155

Yes but it feels like something dwarves would actually make.

>>52519181
how did you do it

>>52525718
Very carefully

>>52519050
In tolkien's stuff it was actually the orcs that were associated with technology and the mechanization of war inspired by his own experiences in world war one.

>>52521625
But anon, those Germanic myths are pretty new compared to the magical short people of the Egyptians.

>>52519050
They're mountain jews. Mountain jews make clocks

>>52525718
With a sord

>>52519050
Because necessity is the mother of invention. And dwarves have many necessities.

>>52531954
What sort of sord was it?

>>52519296
The flash drive isn't israeli

However pretty much all non-ARM CPUs are designed in Israel since Intel's US teams are apparently a bunch of drooling retards.

>>52525048
How do you make booze when you live underground

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>>52519161
>>52519181

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>>52519262
>Raindwarf

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>>52519050
Just find out in the archive, you fucking scrub/ Seriously, fuck off already

>>52519325
>Because they don't have magic
>Not writing dwarf wizard-priests into your setting
or
>Using 2e's race/class combos as the standard for how demihuman races operate

>>52519050
..When in lucifer's name did this happen? I've only seen bofa maybe twice, but this seems like something you'd remember

>>52532310
The same way that you'd make it overground, but with less worry about sunlight. And everything is automatically lagered.