: That dude looks like a smith--lowercase, a guy that makes
: metal stuff. Hammer, protective eyewear, apron, funky
: experimental gun-flamethrower thing. This is a
: well-established Dwarven career niche--same kind of
: folks as will be making Myth II Dwarves' mortars and
: balloons and cannons--and I don't think it has
: anything to do with the Smiths of Muirthemne, who were
: evidently magicians first and foremost and who
: probably never had to bang on anything with a hammer.
Actually I doubt this. The Smiths of Muirthenme were a big name then and I'm pretty sure that MJ would have made no mistake by naming the lesser dwarves "Masons," "IronWorkers" or some such. The Smiths of Muirthenme actually didn't seem to meddle in conventional magics, but rather magical items. This would require them to be quite skilled in the arts of building things. They strike me as sort of the Masonic Lodges of london mixed with some strong artifact making sk33lz.
: Now it could certainly be that the actual Smiths who made
: the Tain were, say, a magically-gifted higher level of
: the same organization as this Dwarf. But I really
: don't think it's likely that he's actually one of
: them, and I don't think we can say that this movie is
: intended to show a Dwarven link.
Well… we shall see I suppose.
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