dwarfs vs dwarves by Jeroen van de Weijer- Thursday, 20 April 2017, 7:12 PM Number of replies: 0 The plural 'dwarves' was popularized by J.R.R. Tolkien, in the Lord of the Rings and other books. Tolkien correspondingly used the adjective 'dwarvish' in LOTR (part III, Appendix). Permalink Reply