After the end of the First Age, the Dwarves spoken of are almost exclusively of Durin's line.

During the Third Age the Dwarves of Moria continued to prosper until the year 1980, when, in pursuing a vein of mithril, they broke open a chamber containing the last balrog known in the histories of Middle-earth, called Durin's Bane.

Until the Council of Elrond, the Dwarves did not know that Thráin had held the ring of Durin's line and had lost it to Sauron.

Tolkien indicates that Dwarves of Durin's Folk did fight with the Last Alliance, but he does not say under which king they fought.

He led Durin's Folk back to recolonize Khazad-dûm ( Moria ) some ( unspecified ) time after the beginning of the Fourth Age, where they remained " until the world grew old and the Dwarves failed and the days of Durin's race were ended ".

The Dwarves of Durin's Folk prospered in Erebor, and there are indications Gimli led a group of dwarves to Aglarond.

Similarly, the tongue of Dale, from which came the names of the Dwarves of Durin's house, was translated by Old Norse, a language related to Old English and modern English as Dalish was related to Rohirric and Westron.

The Dwarves who first settled in the Iron Hills during the First Age were of the clan of the Longbeards, most commonly known as Durin's Folk, and consequently were of the most noble kind of Dwarves.

In, Thráin II, King of Durin's folk, the last bearer of one of the seven Rings of Power given to the Dwarves, was captured by Sauron's forces and was kept at Dol Guldur, where he yielded his ring to Sauron under torture.

* c. 40-Many Dwarves abandon the ruined cities of Belegost and Nogrod in the Ered Luin and join Durin's folk in Moria

* 1980-The Moria Dwarves awaken Durin's Bane, a Balrog, which kills Durin VI, king of Khazad-dûm ; the Nazgûl return to Mordor and lay siege to Minas Ithil.

No Dwarves of these lines appear in the tales ; however, as noted below, the Longbeards may be formed out of Dwarves from all lines, and Dwarves from Durin's Folk may therefore have ancestors from these other lines.

During the War of the Dwarves and Orcs, forces from all clans took part in the fighting under the Hithaeglir, at the request of Durin's Folk.

By this version of the story, Durin's Folk were formed out of Dwarves from the other six lines, as a mixed people arose when all Dwarves went to Gundabad.

Dáin, one of the Dwarves ' greatest warriors, was the son of Náin and grandson of Grór, the youngest son of Dáin I of Durin's folk.

Following his grandfather's death, Dáin became lord of the Dwarves of the Iron Hills in Wilderland ; and after the death of Thorin Oakenshield and the extinction of the main branch of Durin's line, he succeeded Thorin as King under the Mountain and King of Durin's folk, the first not in the direct line.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Durin's folk, also known as the Longbeards, were the most important clan of Dwarves.

At this time all of the old lands of the Dwarves were reclaimed by Durin's folk, including Khazad-dûm, Erebor, the Iron Hills, Gundabad, the Blue Mountains, the Glittering Caves of Aglarond, and many small dwellings in the Misty Mountains.

In The Lord of the Rings Tolkien writes that they breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry ; also, female Dwarves look and sound ( and dress, if journeying — which is rare ) so alike to Dwarf-males that other folk cannot distinguish them, and thus others wrongly believe Dwarves grow out of stone.

" This led to his death in a feud with the Dwarves, and however the dispute was resolved, Fram's descendants " brought few good tales from the north of that folk " ( from The Lord of the Rings ).

* Dwarves ( Khazad ): Short, stocky bearded folk, strong and hardy, able to endure pain, fatigue and suffering better than other races.

Dwarves of Durin's folk: see Durin's folk

* Dwarves are short and stout folk, known for their hearty constitution and their prowess in melee combat.

Durin VI was King of the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm in the Third Age, when their deep mining for mithril under Caradhras aroused a Balrog from its hiding place in the depths.

1980 led to the desertion of this realm by Dwarves, though Orcs and other creatures came to dwell under the Misty Mountains.

Towards the end of the War of the Ring, Elessar was crowned King of Gondor, and forgave the Men who had fought under Sauron, heralding a great renewal of cooperation and communication between Men, Elves, and Dwarves.

Led by Maedhros in the east were gathered the Sons of Fëanor, the Elves and Men of Himring under Maedhros and Maglor, the Elves of Amon Ereb under Caranthir, the Easterlings of Bór and Ulfang and the Dwarves of Belegost.

Dwarves from Moria founded the Kingdom under the Mountain at Erebor, first in and later returning from the Grey Mountains in.

* 2989-Frodo Baggins comes under the guardianship of Bilbo Baggins ; a company of Dwarves, led by Balin, try to recolonize Moria

The combined forces of the Men of Dale under King Brand and the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain under King Dáin Ironfoot marched out to meet the Easterlings in battle.

Following his departure from Kyuss he joined The Dwarves as an on again off again bassist under the moniker Rex Everything.

A similar fate happens to the Dwarves: although Erebor becomes an ally of the Reunited Kingdom and there are indications Khazad-dûm is refounded, and a colony is established under Gimli in the White Mountains, they become ever more reclusive, and disappear from human history.

He occasionally performs with punk band The Dwarves under the alias Dutch Ovens.

After uniting the Dwarves and Elves, the party stops by the harbor city of Riva which currently under siege by the orcish hordes.

When writing The Hobbit in the early 1930s Tolkien gave the name Gandalf to the leader of the Dwarves, the character later called Thorin Oakenshield.

He turned up again, however, before the walls of Erebor disguised as an old man, revealing himself when it seemed the Men of Esgaroth and the Elves of Mirkwood would fight Thorin and the Dwarves over Smaug's treasure.

The Dwarves ' leader, Thorin Oakenshield, refused to share the treasure as long as they stood in arms before his gate, and declared war on both of them.

Thus Bilbo, Thorin, and Thorin's company of twelve other Dwarves travelled to the Lonely Mountain to regain the treasure.

Thorin, mad with greed, refused all claims and managed to contact Dáin II Ironfoot, chief of the Dwarves of the Iron Hills, who came to aid their dwarven cousins.

After the ensuing Battle of the Five Armies, in which the Eagles, the Elves of Mirkwood, the Men of Dale, and the Dwarves of the Iron Hills ( as well as Thorin's band ) defeated an invading horde of Goblins and in which Thorin was killed, his cousin Dáin II Ironfoot, already King of the Iron Hills, became King Under the Mountain, and the Lonely Mountain was not abandoned again.

# REDIRECT List of Middle-earth Dwarves # Glóin, son of Thorin

In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins has to rescue the Dwarves of Thorin Oakenshield's company from these Elves.

# REDIRECT List of Middle-earth Dwarves # Thorin I

# REDIRECT List of Middle-earth Dwarves # Thorin III Stonehelm

Thorin also was concerned about Smaug, but had the different motive of revenge and the reclaiming of the Dwarves ' treasure in the Lonely Mountain.

Gandalf thought Bilbo, an unlikely choice, to be a suitable companion to Thorin and his Dwarves for a number of reasons.