Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27860585-20160227122451/@comment-26322120-20160505232158

Alright 75.213.130.147, if it weren't for the selfishness and evil of a few elves *cough Feanor cough*, Melkor would have been vanquished long before he could have done most of the evils he has, such as infecting men with his evil, we would all be in paradise, instead of the more or less hell we are living in right now. Gimli the dwarf, proved himself superior to Legolas the elf at the battle of Helms Deep.

Your argument is composed of the biological strengths of elves, (and really, elves being "more graceful and swift" is highly unsupported throughout Tolkien's work, I need a quote to take that seriously) without giving full attention to the biological strengths of the dwarves. Here are a few quotes from the Silmarilion giving those in detail:

"Since they were to come in the days of the power of Melkor, Aulë made the Dwarves strong to endure. Therefore they are stone-hard, stubborn, fast in friendship and in enmity, and they suffer toil and hunger and hurt of body more hardily than all other speaking peoples;"

"Therefore Thingol took thought for arms, which before his people had not needed, and these at first the Naugrim smithied for him; for they were greatly skilled in such work, though none among them surpassed the craftsmen of Nogrod [dwarf city in the Ered Luin], of whom Telchar the smith was greatest in renown [forged Narsil/Anduril wielded by Elendil/Aragorn]. A warlike race of old were all the Naugrim, and they would fight fiercely against whomsoever aggrieved them: servants of Melkor, or Eldar, or Avari, or wild beasts, or not seldom their own kin, Dwarves of other mansions and lordships. Their smithcraft indeed the Sindar soon learned of them; yet in the tempering of steel alone of all crafts the Dwarves were never outmatched even by the Noldor, and in the making of mail of linked rings, which was first contrived by the smiths of Belegost, their work had no rival."

"Last of all the eastern force to stand firm were the Dwarves of Belegost, and thus they won renown. For the Naugrim withstood fire more hardily than either Elves or Men, and it was their custom moreover to wear great masks in battle hideous to look upon; and those stood them in good stead against the dragons."