dwarrows

Noun

dwarrow (plural dwarrows)

1. (rare) A dwarf (member of a race of beings usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves).
   • No reviewer (that I have seen), although all have carefully used the correct dwarfs themselves, has commented on the fact (which I only became conscious of through reviews) that I use throughout the ‘incorrect’ plural dwarves. I am afraid it is just a piece of private bad grammar, rather shocking...[1937 October 15, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “To Stanley Unwin, Chairman of Allen & Unwin”, in Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien, editors, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Boston, Mass....