The Difference of the Species

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Dwarves are more difficult, given their different origins, but I would speculate that they too were the same species because of their broadly similar humanoid appearance.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Aule fashion them to look as much like the vision of the Children of Iluvatar as he could, but his memory was faulty, and they came out stunted and not as 'beautiful'? There's no mention anywhere of them interbreeding with any other races, after all, so...

*frown*

Okay, starting over ish. Take a wolverine and a raccoon; they look broadly similar, but they aren't even in the same family, let alone variations of the same species. (Yes, I know, Dwarves and the rest of the sentient races in Middle-earth are not animals.) It just seems quite a jump to take to say 'They look vaguely the same, so they're probably the same species.'

Did that make any sense?