Shippey thought this a pivotal influence on Tolkien's Middle-earth, combining as it did a god-hero, a ring, dwarves, and a silver hand. The J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia notes also the Hobbit-like appearance of [Dwarf's Hill]'s mine-shaft holes, and that Tolkien was extremely interested in the hill's folklore on his stay there, citing Helen Armstrong's comment that the place may have inspired Tolkien's Celebrimbor and the fallen realms of Moria and Eregion. The scholar of English literature John M. Bowers notes that the name of the Elven-smith Celebrimbor is the Sindarin for Silver Hand, and that Because the place was known locally as Dwarf's Hill and honeycombed with abandoned mines, it naturally suggested itself as background for the Lonely Mountain and the Mines of Moria.