Ancient British cultures reflected in ME

[Keeper of Dol Guldur]

Tolkien said that Dwarves share many Jewish characteristics? Now that needs elaboration. It can't be the fact that they love material things, gold, silver, other moneys, that whole greedy thing is stereotype (isn't it?). Forced to move from their ancestral home to a lesser installation, where they are mistrusted and suspected, then upon attempting retaking original halls and being attacked by miserable creatures who had moved in? Maybe that's what he was talking about, though I doubt it. Then again, after the dwarf-orc war there was much respect and silence and proudness in 'burned' dwarves, and dwarves with the markings and wounds were revered. That's a better explanation. After all, he couldn't have drawn some mean connection to dwarf women having beards, could he?