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Even in translation, the choice matters. When Disney dubs Snow White into Croatian, Dopey becomes Glupko —a riskier, funnier, more direct name. When The Hobbit is translated, Thorin Oakenshield becomes Thorin Hrastovštit , preserving the compound gravitas of the original. To ask “What are the names of the dwarves?” is to ask a much deeper question: How do we understand the small, strong, hidden folk of our imagination?

Take the names from The Hobbit :

These are not random. They are lifted directly from the Völuspá (the Norse poem of creation), specifically the Dvergatal (the “Catalogue of Dwarves”). Tolkien understood that a dwarf’s name should sound like a hammer striking an anvil: short vowels, hard consonants (D, B, K, T), and guttural rolls (R, N). imena patuljaka