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== The Creation of the Dwarves ==
== The Creation of the Dwarves ==


The Dwarves were created by [[Aulë]] the smith (whom they called [[Mahal]]) somewhere in [[Middle-earth]], and were put to sleep until the creation of the [[Elves]].  The Seven [[Fathers of the Dwarves]] were created, by which all Dwarves are descended fromHowever, Aulë did not have the power to give life to his creations; only [[Eru Ilúvatar]] could give life.  Realizing this, Aulë went to Eru to confess his sin and gave Eru his children.  Eru accepted them and made them his adopted children, and they were to awake after the Elves appeared on Arda.
The Dwarves were created by [[Aulë]] the smith (whom they called [[Mahal]]) somewhere in [[Middle-earth]], and were put to sleep until the creation of the [[Elves]].  He created the Seven [[Fathers of the Dwarves]], from whom all Dwarves are descended.  Aulë, however, did not have the power to give life to his creations; only [[Eru Ilúvatar]] could give life.  Realizing this, Aulë went to Eru to confess his sin and gave Eru his children.  Eru accepted them and made them his adopted children, and they were to awake after the Elves appeared on Arda.


== The Years of the Trees ==
== The Years of the Trees ==

Revision as of 21:50, 24 October 2006

The History of the Dwarves began with their creation, and here ends with the dwindling of their race.

The Creation of the Dwarves

The Dwarves were created by Aulë the smith (whom they called Mahal) somewhere in Middle-earth, and were put to sleep until the creation of the Elves. He created the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves, from whom all Dwarves are descended. Aulë, however, did not have the power to give life to his creations; only Eru Ilúvatar could give life. Realizing this, Aulë went to Eru to confess his sin and gave Eru his children. Eru accepted them and made them his adopted children, and they were to awake after the Elves appeared on Arda.

The Years of the Trees

The Seven Fathers awoke throughout Arda in pairs: the Firebeards and Broadbeams, Ironfists and Stiffbeards, Blacklocks and Stonefoots, and Durin I the father of the Longbeards, who awoke alone. These clans made their halls where they awoke: the Firebeards and Broadbeams, in the Ered Luin, where they built the cities of Nogrod and Belegost, and Durin who awoke in the Misty Mountains settled in the caves above Kheled-zâram. We do not know exactly where the Ironfists, Stiffbeards, Blacklocks, and Stonefoots awoke.

They all became very prosperous in their mountains, making fine jewelry, weapons, and other treasures.

The first meeting of Elves and Dwarves in Beleriand took place in the year 1250 of the Trees. Even if their friendship was cool, the Dwarves worked for the Sindar, delving the caves of Menegroth and forging weapons for them.

The First Age

The First Age came with the awakening of Men.

After the Return of the Noldor, Finrod Felagund desired to settle himself in the Caves of Narog. So he built a great city in those caverns, and the Dwarves of the Ered Luin aided him. They liked him, and gave him the dwarven name of Felagund, which meant “hewer of caves”. They eventually made for him the Nauglamír.

The Second Age

The Third Age

The Third Age was a dark and sometimes prosperous time for the Dwarves, starting with the awakening of the Balrog, and ending with the War of the Ring.

Not much is known about the Dwarves during the early Third Age, except that they were busy in Khazad-dum mining for Mithril. in the year 1980, th Balrog was awoken in the deeps of of the Misty Mountains and kills king Durin VI. Then in 1981 the king's son Náin I is killed, and the Dwarves fled Khazad-dum, which from then on the city as called Moria, which means "Black pit" in Elvish. Most of Durin's folk left for the Grey Mountains in the North, while a some followed the new king, Thráin I. Who went to the Erebor on the eaves of Mirkwood in 1999, and started his kingdom there. For a little over two-hundred years the Dwarves that followed the king lived in mountain. Mining the mountain for gold and jewels, and finding the most precious of jewels, the Arkenstone , when in 2190, Thráin died and his son Thorin I became King under the Mountain. And in 2210, when he heard that his kinsmen were gathering in the mountains to the North, and how rich and unexplored they were, he left Erebor for the Ered Mithrin. So for more than three-hunred years the Dwarves of the Grey Mountains prospered. When after many years, the Dragons in the far North started to gain strength, and their population grew and they made war against the Dwarves. Plundering and destroying their works. At last 2589, king Dáin I, along with his second oldest son Frór, was killed at the gates of his halls by great Cold-drake. So once again the Dwarves were exiled from their homes. Most of the Dwarves left the Ered Mithrin , some followed Dáin's youngest son Grór to the Iron Hills, while most along with the Dáin's brother Borin, followed the the new king Thrór to Erebor again to start the Kingdom under the Mountain.


The Fourth Age

The Fourth Age, was a time of expansion and renewed growth for the Dwarves, with the colonization of the Glittering Caves, to the retaking of Moria from the Goblins.

Gloin, father of Gimli, died in the year 5 FA at two-hundred fifty-three years of age.

Not much is known about the Dwarves in the Fourth age. We do know that after the War of the Ring, Gimli brought many of Durin's Folk from Erebor to the Glittering Caves and started a colony. Gimli, was later permitted to go across the sea to Valinor with Legolas in the year 120 FA.

It is said that Durin VII (the Last), retook Moria and brought Khazad-dum back to its original splendor, and that the Dwarves lived there till the world grew old and the days of Durin's race ended.

It is possible that a Dwarves population increased durin the FA and that they may have reclaimed there ancient halls in the Ered Mithrin from the dragons and Orcs that dwelt there.