DCI : Last Alliance - Mundus Bellicus

Les Nains de Khazâd-Dûm

Il est dit qu'au commencement les Khazâd, les Nains, ont été conçus par le Valar Aulë. il le fit dans les profondeurs de la terre du milieu, tant son désir d'avoir des Enfants à qui il pouvait transmettre son art était grand, et qu'il était trop impatient pour attendre le dénouement des volontés d'Ilúvatar. Après que cette violation a été sanctionnée par Ilúvatar, les Nains sont devenus un des peuples de la terre du milieu, différents des hommes et des elfes. Comme leur créateur, ils étaient liés à la terre elle même, à ses montagnes et ses profondeurs.
Sept pères ont été créés, et le premier et le plus vieux était Dürin qui se réveilla au mont Gundabad, et dont le peuple était les Barbes-Longues.Il alla alors vers le sud à travaers les Monts brumeux, et contruit la plus grande forteresse de sa race : Khazâd-Dûm. les Barbes-longues ont depuis prospéré et se sont étendus, et leur royaume va des monts de Fer jusqu'au mont Brumeux en passant par les Montagnes Grises. Leurs routes pour le commerce traversaient le Rhovanion et Eryn galen. De même, les contatcs avec les autres royaumes de Nogrod et Belegost en Ered Luin étaient fréquents, et leurs connaissances sur l'art de la forge et de la consruction se sont améliorées au cours des millénaires.

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After Morgoth fell, hosts of his surviving Orcs assailed the north, and much was lost. To strengthen their power the Longbeards allied with the Northmen who were tamers of horses and skilled archers, and the alliance proved a great gain to both kindreds. Khazâd-dûm was further helped as the majority of the Dwarves of Ered Luin immigrated during the early Second Age, and Noldor who remained in Middle-earth founded Eregion west of the capital, and firmer friendship between them than anywhere else between Elves and Dwarves arose.
But also Sauron remained, and after the Eregion smiths had crafted the Rings of Power and Sauron the One Ring to rule them all, war engulfed the West once more. Khazâd-dûm set out to aid Eregion when it was attacked in 1697, together with forces from Lórien, but Eregion fell and Khazâd-dûm came under siege. The Dark Lord's hate follows the Longbeards ever since, and Orcs are ordered to assail them whenever possible.
During these wars also the alliance with the Northmen was broken, and since the Khazâd have kept within their own borders, and the population of Khazâd-dûm dwindled.

Seven Rings are held by Dwarven lords, six handed to them by Sauron, but the Longbeards hold true that the one that Durin's line posess indeed was given as gift to Durin III by Celebrimbor of Eregion himself. Whatever the truth, Sauron found that Dwarves could not be dominated trough their Rings, they ill endure the domination of others nor can they be turned to shadows. He yearn to get the Rings back, and while they grant the Khazâd increased wealth they also grant greater dangers.

Now for a long time Sauron have had his Eye and interest fixated elsewhere, in what has led to the new war with the Elves and the Exiles from Númenor, and this breather inspires hope.
It is time to emerge in force, to regain land that was lost, to recapture Mount Gundabad from the Orcs, and to revive the bonds of old with the Northmen.
Perhaps even, if king Durin IV wills it, to join the Alliance that now march against Mordor and the Dark Lord?

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