silverserenades replied to your post “I’ve come to a gentle realization that if I were in Middle Earth, I...”
I WOULD TOO!! I literally had a convo with my bf with the idea that all humans came from elves, dwarves, and hobbits all other kinds of middle earth species. I also speculated that I too would be a dwarf!!
YESSSS! I think about this a lot. I'm reading the Silmarillion and in it is described how Aule made the Dwarves to live before Men and Elves, during Melkor's power/pre-Children of Illuvatar hissy fit. It's described that Dwarves were made to be "stone-hard, stubborn, fast in friendship and in enmity." And I really resonated with that, especially after reading about the Dwarves in LOTR and the Hobbit and stuff. (And it definitely doesn't help that I'm getting hairy as fuck, too.)