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English, the Dwarvish names were taken from Norse: since the

Mannish language from which they were adopted was closely
related to the more southerly language from which was derived
the language of Rohan (represented as Old English, because of
its greater archaism in form as compared with those elements in
the Common Speech derived from the languages of the same
kinship). In consequence such names as Balin, etc. would not
have appeared in any contemporary inscription using actual
Khuzdul.(22)

Relations of the Longbeard Dwarves and Men.(23)

In the Dwarvish traditions of the Third Age the names of the
places where each of the Seven Ancestors had 'awakened' were
remembered; but only two of them were known to Elves and
Men of the West: the most westerly, the awakening place of the
ancestors of the Firebeards and the Broadbeams; and that of the
ancestor of the Longbeards,(24) the eldest in making and awaken-
ing. The first had been in the north of the Ered Lindon, the great
eastern wall of Beleriand, of which the Blue Mountains of the
Second and later ages were the remnant; the second had been
Mount Gundabad (in origin a Khuzdul name), which was there-
fore revered by the Dwarves, and its occupation in the Third
Age by the Orks of Sauron was one of the chief reasons for their
great hatred of the Orks.(25) The other two places were eastward,
at distances as great or greater than that between the Blue
Mountains and Gundabad: the arising of the Ironfists and Stiff-
beards, and that of the Blacklocks and Stonefoots. Though
these four points were far sundered the Dwarves of different
kindreds were in communication, and in the early ages often
held assemblies of delegates at Mount Gundabad. In times of
great need even the most distant would send help to any of their
people; as was the case in the great War against the Orks (Third
Age 2793 to 2799). Though they were loth to migrate and make
permanent dwellings or 'mansions' far from their original
homes, except under great pressure from enemies or after some
catastrophe such as the ruin of Beleriand, they were great and
hardy travellers and skilled road-makers; also, all the kindreds
shared a common language.(26)
But in far distant days the Dwarves were secretive [struck
out: - and none more so than the Longbeards -] and had few
dealings with the Elves. In the West at the end of the First
Age the dealings of the Dwarves of the Ered Lindon with King
Thingol ended in disaster and the ruin of Doriath, the memory

of which still poisoned the relations of Elves and Dwarves in
after ages. At that time the migrations of Men from the East and
South had brought advance-guards into Beleriand; but they
were not in great numbers, though further east in Eriador and