SDCC: In Lord Of The Rings, dwarf women don’t necessarily have beards
Meet Disa, played by Sophia Nomvete, the first female dwarf that we’ve ever seen in Tolkien

In Peter Jackson’s second Rings film, The Two Towers, Gimli the dwarf (John Rhys-Davies) tells Éowyn (Miranda Potter) that there’s a rumor that there are “no dwarf women,” and that it’s impossible to tell the difference between male and female dwarves. Like the jokester we all know him to be, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) gestures to Éowyn, saying “it’s the beards” that cause the confusion.
Since then, as Gimli points out, it has led some to believe that Dwarf women don’t exist and that Dwarves sprout out of the ground, which, of course, is preposterous.
Prime Video’s new Lord Of The Rings series settles this debate once and for all. As played by Sophia Nomvete, Disa is the first dwarf woman in a live-action Lord Of The Ring adaptation. Furthermore, Nomvete says that she’s the first female dwarf in all of Tolkien.