"The game is set in a fantasy world and is focused on dwarves."  "Do the dwarves love gold?"  "Well, yes.  They're dwarves."  "Do they have big noses?  Are they the merchant class of this fantasy world?  Are they being persecuted by a militaristic faction of humans?  Do they wear funny little hats?"  "No?  They're just dwarves."  "Game is disqualified.  Not enough obvious racial stereotypes.  You really need to beat players over the head with it to qualify.",(reply>), @ShenMerrick Tolkien himself meant the dwarves to be Jewish.  Remember the Hobbit "Misty Mountains Home?" The dwarves singing of your lost homeland? Embarking on a journey to reclaim it? Minority living in foreign lands but keeping their language and customs pure? 100% Zionist as inspiration.  Even the dwarven language was constructed based on Hebrew. Apparently so was their calendar!<br><br>And no this isn't making shit up: it's straight from Tolkien.  Dwarves are based on Jews. <br><br>He may have hated allegory within the story, but he still based the various races on real world sources.  The Shire/Hobbits are 100% idyllic English countryside and complacent "high society" types.  The elven language was finnish.  Rohan was loosely based on the Germanic Ostrogoths.  Gondor was based on Byzantium, actually.  This becomes more apparent when you remember the north/south split between Arnor and Gondor, with Arnor falling first and Gondor withering away in decay afterwards. So with this "inspiration" Arnor is the Roman Empire and Gondor was the longer-lived Byzantium.,(reply>), I've always found elves to be far more representative of Jewish tropes/stereotypes to me. Like that other dude said, you never see a "merchant" doing physical labour or engineering. Meanwhile the elves (not the hippie wood elves, they're more representative of aboriginals) are conniving, intelligent, shifty puppet masters who tend to be at the head of conspiracies.,(reply>), @Umar Wazir That is completely wrong. The dwarves in Tolkien's works were not even close to being a representation of the jews. Tolkien hated allegory like that and said that nothing in his world was meant to be an allegory of anything in the real world.,(reply>), This is reading back to Tolkein's original intent regarding dwarves, to have as surrogates for Jews. It has since evolved in a different direction.