Tolkien's Dwarves, Thorin, Gl?i, Bifur, Bombur, et al, rested in the quiet dormitory that is the Elder Edda (or the Poetic Edda) some centuries before J.R.R. fortuitously happened upon and wakened them. Gandalf (found therein) was originally a dwarf.This tale speaks of their deaths, in Our world, in Lindisfarne, in England, in A.D. 754; and provides the clue as to how their names survived and channeled through time, through the Eddas, through Fantasy itself, and so through to us today...
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