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Pages in category "Fictional characters with dwarfism" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Maybe the Moon, by Armistead Maupin, has as its protagonist Cadence Roth, a Jewish dwarf actress. The character is based on Maupin's friend Tamara De Treaux, who played the title role in the movie E.T. [7] Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. The narrator of the novel, Olympia Binewski, is an albino hunchback dwarf whose family owns a traveling carnival.
A dwarf (pl. dwarfs or dwarves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Accounts of dwarfs vary significantly throughout history; however, they are commonly, but not exclusively, presented as living in mountains or stones and being skilled craftsmen. In early literary sources, only males are explicitly referred to as dwarfs.
This category lists famous dwarfs, regardless of the condition that makes them shorter than average. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
As a prominent cultural portrayal, the Seven Dwarfs have been controversial among people with dwarfism.One critical scholar has said it "followed the conventions of the freak show and perpetuated contemporary prejudices in their constructions of people with dwarfism," portraying them as "incapable, humorous, weird, childlike," and "overly naïve, perhaps even dim-witted."
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Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Per Far Out magazine, Washington's parents were strict when it came to the kind of content he watched on TV. In fact, they only allowed him to watch two movies ...
The petty-dwarf Mîm may derive from the shrunken figure of Mime, [2] here shown cowering behind the celebrating Siegfried in Wagner's opera Der Ring des Nibelungen. Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1911. Each of the Seven Fathers founds one of the seven Dwarf clans. Durin I is the eldest, and the first of his kind to awake in Middle-earth.