- Cities and buildings
- Fields, plains and deserts
- Forests
- Hills and mountains
- Islands and promontories
- Lands, realms and regions
- Rivers and lakes
- Seas and oceans
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Dates
The earliest Dwarf-cities dated back into the First Age; the great city of Khazad-dûm was deserted in III 1981, but Erebor still existed (after a turbulent history) at the end of the Third Age1
Locations
Dwarf-cities tended to be located within and beneath mountains, and were known to exist in the Blue Mountains, the Misty Mountains and beneath Erebor, the Lonely Mountain
Race
Divisions
Khazad-dûm and Erebor were founded by the Longbeards (Durin's Folk), but other cities (notably those of the Blue Mountains) were occupied by other clans of Dwarves
Settlements
The greatest of the Dwarf-cities was Khazad-dûm, and other major examples included Belegost, Erebor and Nogrod, with other unknown cities lying farther to the East
Important peaks
Dwarf-cities lay beneath Mount Dolmed in the Blue Mountains, the Mountains of Moria among the Misty Mountains, and Erebor, the Lonely Mountain
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The great cities of the Dwarves were in all cases associated with mountainous terrain, no doubt due to the Dwarves' love of mining and metalwork. The Dwarf-cities for which we have a detailed descriptions - Khazad-dûm and Erebor - were tunnelled within and beneath mountains (the Mountains of Moria and the Lonely Mountain, respectively). We don't know for sure whether all Dwarf-cities were constructed on this underground model, but the two other cities whose names are recorded - Belegost and Nogrod - were both built among the peaks of the Blue Mountains, and were quite possibly tunnelled under those peaks like Khazad-dûm. Elsewhere in the world, it seems that there was an ancestral Dwarf-city at one time at Mount Gundabad in the north, but this was captured by the Orcs during the Second Age,2 and during the Third Age it remained in the hands of the Goblins (who indeed made it their northern capital). There were other Dwarf-cities in Middle-earth, too, but they lay far off in the East, and their names have nowhere been recorded. Notes
See also...Balrogs, Black Chasm, Celebdil, Chamber of Records, Child of the Twilight, Dark Lord, Dwarves, Elves of Eregion, Fanuidhol, Galadriel, Hollowbold, King of Khazad-dûm, Lord of Nogrod, Mírdain, Misty Mountains, [See the full list...] Indexes: About this entry:
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