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The first Dwarf was Durin who awoke at Mount Gundabad, and his folk were the Longbeards. South trough the Misty Mountains he moved before the First Age and founded the greatest mansion of all their race, Khazâd-dûm. The Longbeards prospered and spread, so that their realm ranged from the Iron Hills in the east trough the Grey Mountains to the Misty Mountains, their roads for trade stretched trough Rhovanion, and trough Eryn Galen.

After Morgoth fell, hosts of his surviving Orcs assailed the north, and much was lost. To strengthen their power the Longbeards allied with the Northmen who were tamers of horses and skilled archers, and the alliance proved a great gain to both kindreds. Khazâd-dûm was further helped as the majority of the Dwarves of Ered Luin immigrated during the early Second Age, and Noldor who remained in Middle-earth founded Eregion west of the capital, and firmer friendship between them than anywhere else between Elves and Dwarves arose.
But also Sauron remained, and after the Eregion smiths had crafted the Rings of Power and Sauron the One Ring to rule them all, war engulfed the West once more.
During these wars also the alliance with the Northmen was broken, and since the Khazâd have kept within their own borders, and the population of Khazâd-dûm dwindled.

Now for a long time Sauron have had his Eye and interest fixated elsewhere, in what has led to the new war with the Elves and the Exiles from Númenor, and this breather inspires hope.
It is time to emerge in force, to regain land that was lost, to recapture Mount Gundabad from the Orcs, and to revive the bonds of old with the Northmen.
Perhaps even, if king Durin IV wills it, to join the Alliance that now march against Mordor and the Dark Lord?