![]() His younger brother Grór left for the east where he founded a lordship in the Iron Hills. Thrór, eldest son of Dáin I, and now King of Durin's Folk, returned along with his uncle Borin and part of his people to the Lonely Mountain. During the reign of Dáin I, a Cold-drake invaded his halls and killed him along with his second son, Frór. Thorin decided to leave Erebor and take his people to the north, where they lived in peace until the reign of his grandson Náin II, when they began to be attacked by dragons. Thráin I, Náin's son fled along with his people to the Lonely Mountain, where he founded the Kingdom under the Mountain.ĭuring the reign of Thorin I son of Thráin, rumors were heard of greater wealth in the Grey Mountains. In TA 1980, their king Durin VI was killed by the creature, which the following year also killed his son, Náin I. In the middle of the Third Age, they were expelled from Khazad-dûm by the Balrog known as Durin's Bane. At the end of the age the Dwarves of Durin's Folk participated in the War of the Last Alliance, fighting on the side of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. As a result the Gates of Khazad-dûm were shut and the Orcs could not gain entry, the Dwarves within being too numerous and valiant to overcome. Afterwards Durin's Folk earned the hatred of Sauron and Orcs were commanded to harass Dwarves wherever they could find them. During the War of the Elves and Sauron the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm sortied out to attack Sauron's forces in the rear, allowing Elrond and his army to escape. ![]() In the Second Age, Durin's Folk began a friendship with the Ñoldor of Celebrimbor in Eregion. After the end of the War of Wrath and the ruin of Nogrod and Belegost, many of the Dwarves of those cities migrated to Khazad-dûm, swelling its population and intermingling with Durin's Folk. Durin's Folk settled Khazad-dûm in the Years of the Trees, prospering there throughout the First Age. ![]()
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