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Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard
Well actually there might be a connection between Khand and dwarves. During the War of the Ring Easterlings are described as perhaps belonging to more than one culture, plus the Variags of Khand. One group is described as a "new" kind of Easterling that the men of Gondor had previously not encountered; fierce bearded men with axes.
My theory is that Easterlings could be a mix of dwarf & men blood. Just look at Khaműl's name, one of the nine Nazgul, and he's an Easterling. Easterlings have just taken the language of Khuzdul and added their own twist to it.
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I would call this theory interesting, but (with all respect) "very fantastic". Again, as it was said before, the fact that someone's name begins with "kh" hardly means anything. Theoretically, even the influence of Dwarven language on the Easterling language would be quite impossible - think how secretive the Dwarves are with their language alone, now I can't imagine them sharing their language with the Easterlings (or only speaking in it in front of the Men to the point that they will adapt some words from it), nor, Eru forbid, them crossbreeding with Dwarves. Just think about it: that is silliness! Dwarves had quite enough problems with their own wives (most of them never married due to work), now I don't want to imagine such a thing with human women... no, that's just plain nonsense. And even "spiritually", Dwarves were the children of Aulë and Men were children of Ilúvatar... and what Ilúvatar said that "there will be little love between the children I adopted and the children who are mine" (or something like that) applies to Men as well... no, I think, hardly.