Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of

Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning.

When you think about the qualities of dwarves, what comes to mind?

For me, it's things like resilience, stubbornness, strength, ingenuity.

A lot of these kinds of qualities get thrown around when we talk about the dwarves, but yet

in The Hobbit we see less of these, or at least the dwarves are in such perilous situations

that even though they are resilient and they do rise to the occasion,

we get the glimpses of the, I don't know, more real-world

reactions to things, their fear, their timidity, their apprehension.

And if you didn't have a very dynamic understanding of the word bravery, you might look at

what they do and how they react and think that they aren't brave,

because they're scared a lot.

Oftentimes they're scared to the point where they cannot think straight,

and they need somebody like Gandalf or Bilbo to think for them.

But that's not how bravery works.

Bravery, as has been discussed many times over the years,

is not about a lack of fear. It's about willing yourself forward in spite of fear. Somebody who

doesn't have any fear can't be brave. Bravery is overcoming fear.

And that is something that we see in the dwarves all the time.

And sometimes it takes them a minute.

They have to kind of gather themselves.

They have to work themselves up.

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