Poll: Better fighter? 42 midgets or an African Lion.

[Trunk]

@Malacandra

Tolkien’s foreword to The Hobbit does not agree with you.

dictionary.com does.

wiki says this

Traditionally, the plural of dwarf was “dwarfs”, especially when referring to actual humans with dwarfism, but ever since J. R. R. Tolkien used dwarves in his fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, the plural forms “dwarfs” and “dwarves” have been used interchangeably.

I don’t have an OED in front of me, only a computer so I’m all out of bullets on the dwarfs/dwarves issue.

[Malacandra]

Bah. You’d think dictionaries would work to eradicate barbarisms, not perpetuate them.

[Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup]

No, I thought they were relying ont he lions to take out the barbarisms.

42 at a time.

[Scumpup]

Based on what occured, it seems probable that they midget ninjas and it was a pirate lion.