I expect that almost all my readers will know that the Seven Dwarfs in the Disney version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were named Happy, Doc, Grumpy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey.
However in 1916, Snow White was
produced for the first time in film by Paramount Pictures, adapted from
the 1912 Broadway version. This was during the silent film era and at this time the Seven Dwarfs were named for the first time Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee.
Tolkein also was very keen on dwarfs and it was he who coined the plural of dwarf as Dwarves. We know the names of the lines of Dwarves of the 7 founded, these are: Longbeards, Broadbeams, Firebeards, Ironfists, Stiffbeards, Blacklocks and Stonefoots. However we only know the name of the father of the first line (Longbeards) which was Durin.
All that was simply to introduce you to a composite of seven of the pictures I took of Joshua. Adrian, that wizard of photo manipulation, produced the following:
