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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
A very good point.
It must be remembered that Tolkien's dwarves were not as short as people tend to think they were.
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Even if Thorin was about 3-4 feet tall he would still have been capable of using a full size (3-3 1/2 ft sword) - take a look at this piece on Long sword fighting, particularly the bottom two pictures
http://www.thearma.org/essays/Talhoffer/HT-Web.htm