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* The '''[[Kingdom under the Mountain]]''' was one of the greatest kingdoms of the Dwarves.  Located at [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]], it was founded by [[Thráin I]], but was abandoned by his son, [[Thorin I]].  It was resettled by [[Thrór]] but, years later, [[Smaug]] [[Sack of Erebor|sacked]] the mountain and drove the Dwarves out.  [[Thorin|Thorin II Oakenshield]] refounded the kingdom in {{TA|2941}} at the cost of his life.
* The '''[[Kingdom under the Mountain]]''' was one of the greatest kingdoms of the Dwarves.  Located at [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]], it was founded by [[Thráin I]], but was abandoned by his son, [[Thorin I]].  It was resettled by [[Thrór]] but, years later, [[Smaug]] [[Sack of Erebor|sacked]] the mountain and drove the Dwarves out.  [[Thorin|Thorin II Oakenshield]] refounded the kingdom in {{TA|2941}} at the cost of his life.


* The '''[[Iron Hills]]''' were a range of small mountains rich with iron, colonized by Durin's folk during the [[First Age]]. Around the year 2500 of the Third Age, [[Grór]] son of [[Dáin I]] founded the Iron Hills as an independent kingdom after the Dwarves were exiled from the [[Ered Mithrin|Grey Mountains]], and he became the first [[Lord of the Iron Hills]]. The exiles who settled in the Iron Hills were of course in friendly relations with the Dwarves of the [[Lonely Mountain]] (Erebor), who were of similar like and mind, being kin to Grór and [[Thrór]]. After the [[Battle of the Five Armies]], many [[Dwarves of the Iron Hills]] relocated to the [[Lonely Mountain]] after the kingdom of Erebor was re-founded.
* The '''[[Iron Hills]]''' were a range of small mountains rich with iron, colonized by Durin's folk during the [[First Age]]. Around the year 2500 of the Third Age, [[Grór]] son of [[Dáin I]] founded the Iron Hills as an independent kingdom after the Dwarves were exiled from the [[Grey Mountains]], and he became the first [[Lord of the Iron Hills]]. The exiles who settled in the Iron Hills were of course in friendly relations with the Dwarves of the [[Lonely Mountain]] (Erebor), who were of similar like and mind, being kin to Grór and [[Thrór]]. After the [[Battle of Five Armies]], many [[Dwarves of the Iron Hills]] relocated to the [[Lonely Mountain]] after the kingdom of Erebor was re-founded.


* The '''[[Glittering Caves]]''' '''of [[Glittering Caves|Aglarond]]''' were a cave system in the [[White Mountains]] behind [[Helm's Deep]].  [[Gimli]] son of [[Glóin]] led a large group of [[Dwarves of Erebor]] there after the [[War of the Ring]] and became the [[Lord of the Glittering Caves]]. His Dwarves performed great services for the [[Rohirrim]] and the [[Men of Gondor]], of which the most famous was the making of new gates for Minas Tirith, forged out of ''[[mithril]]'' and steel.<ref name="Folk" /> The dwarves of Aglarond restored the Hornburg following the War of the Ring, and it became a fortress they shared with the Rohirrim. The Dwarves of the Glittering Caves carefully tended the stone walls and opened new ways and chambers and hung lamps that filled the caverns with light.<ref>{{TT|Road}}</ref>
* The '''[[Glittering Caves]]''' '''of [[Glittering Caves|Aglarond]]''' were a cave system in the [[White Mountains]] behind [[Helm's Deep]].  [[Gimli]] son of [[Glóin]] led a large group of [[Dwarves of Erebor]] there after the [[War of the Ring]] and became the [[Lord of the Glittering Caves]]. His Dwarves performed great services for the [[Rohirrim]] and the [[Men of Gondor]], of which the most famous was the making of new gates for Minas Tirith, forged out of ''[[mithril]]'' and steel.<ref name="Folk" /> The dwarves of Aglarond restored the Hornburg following the War of the Ring, and it became a fortress they shared with the Rohirrim. The Dwarves of the Glittering Caves carefully tended the stone walls and opened new ways and chambers and hung lamps that filled the caverns with light.<ref>{{TT|Road}}</ref>

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Throughout the history of Arda, there have been many Dwarf realms:

  • Nogrod and Belegost were located in the Blue Mountains. The Firebeards and Broadbeams awoke in Mount Dolmed in the Blue Mountains, and lived there throughout the history of their people. These two houses built the great Dwarven cities of Nogrod and Belegost in the Blue Mountains. It is not clear whether they shared the two cities or whether each house dwelt in its own.[2] Nogrod and Belegost were ruined at the end of the First Age, leaving the Firebeards and the Broadbeams to either rebuild their halls or, as many did relocate to Khazad-dȗm in S.A. 40.
    The Ered Luin would later become a refuge for much of Durin's folk who established Thorin's Halls beyond the Lune[3] during the latter Third Age. However, the Firebeards and Broadbeams continued to live there through the Fourth Age, and probably till the diminishing of the race of Dwarves (there always remained some Dwarves on the eastern side of the Blue Mountains in days afterwards.)[4]
  • The Exiled Kingdom in the Grey Mountains were the great halls of which many of Durin's folk relocated to after being exiled from Khazad-dȗm. The Dwarves of the Grey Mountains became very prosperous in their new halls. for over 500 years they mined and defended their halls from the Dragons of the north and the Orcs from the west. Until, finally Cold-drakes forced them from the mountains, and killed their king Dain I. However, dwarves still remained in the Ered Mithrin throughout the Third and Fourth Age after the core population fled, surviving in whatever mines and halls were remaining.[3]

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