There was indeed stereotypes of them being good at wrestling and fighting, being unhygienic and unshaven & short.
Really? That's pretty stark contrast to the stereotypes of Jews I encounter today, usually they're portrayed as kinda nerdy, orderly and necrotic, "smelly bearded wrestler" isn't really what pops into my head when I think of Jews.
Edit: Also didn't the idea of Jews being bankers come from the fact there were one of the few people who were doing banking in the feudal era? I've never known Jews to be associated with mining or metallurgy so that element of the dwarves is weird.
I don't know why you guys are acting like Tolkien invented dwarves. He cribbed them from Norse and German mythology basically wholesale. They were already an established thing, short, mythologically good at smithing, often insular and hostile.
Really? That's pretty stark contrast to the stereotypes of Jews I encounter today, usually they're portrayed as kinda nerdy, orderly and necrotic, "smelly bearded wrestler" isn't really what pops into my head when I think of Jews.
Edit: Also didn't the idea of Jews being bankers come from the fact there were one of the few people who were doing banking in the feudal era? I've never known Jews to be associated with mining or metallurgy so that element of the dwarves is weird.
Yeah, something about usury laws I think.
I don't know why you guys are acting like Tolkien invented dwarves. He cribbed them from Norse and German mythology basically wholesale. They were already an established thing, short, mythologically good at smithing, often insular and hostile.