Dwarves

(S. "Naugrim" 'Stunted-folk', also "Hadhodrim 'Khazad'", "Nogothrim", "Dornhoth"; Q. "Kasallie", "Naukalie", "Nornalie"; Os. "Naugol")

The Dwarves, or "Naugrim," are descendants of the Seven Fathers of the Khazâd, who were created by the Vala Aulë (The Smith) out of stone. Their seven lineages or houses settled in separate areas, but always in or by the mountains. All Dwarves consider mountains sacred. They also worship Aulë, whom they call "Mahal."

Detailed Description
Dwarves are rather short, stocky, and have a ruddy complexion. Males average about 4 to 5 feet in height. They have deep-set eyes, dark hair, and beards (which they grow long and often decorate or braid). Resistant to diseases and extremely strong, they live an average of 150-250 years. Some reach the age of 400.

The Naugrim have superior sight underground and in places of near total darkness. Their crafts are superb, and they are unsurpassed workers of stone. Like Orcs, they are masters of metalwork, although Dwarven works embody a sense of beauty as well as strength and utility. No race mines as well as Dwarves.

Relatively unfertile and slow to marry or reproduce (females constitute less than a third of their kind), Dwarves rarely sire young. They know of magic and certain enchantments, but generally scoff at the ways of conjurers or the use of spells, preferring instead to use such power in the making of physical items. Tribes


 * Longbeards
 * Firebeards
 * Broadbeams
 * Ironfists
 * Stiffbeards
 * Blacklocks
 * Stonefoots