 However, more than just supplying names, the "Catalogue of the Dwarves" appears to have inspired Tolkien to supply meaning and context to the list of names—that they travelled together, and this in turn became the quest told of in "The Hobbit".The Dwarves' written language is represented on maps and in illustrations by Anglo-Saxon Runes.The Dwarf calendar invented for "The Hobbit" reflects the Jewish calendar in beginning in late autumn.