Ah yes, I can see it now...the Green Dwarves, growers of coffee and other fine subterranean products, ridiculed by the dwarves of gems and mithril, but good workers nonetheless.
Somehow, that just doesn't work. The Southrons with their slaves harvesting the beans on huge plantation-type farms owned by wealthy sahibs seems much more coherent and fitting.
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"'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
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