'I grieved at the fall of Thorin,' said Gandalf 'and now we hear that Dáin has fallen, fighting in Dale again, even while we fought here. Not long before news had come to Gondor of events far away. As to why they weren't asked for help during LoTR, Gandalf refers (in Appendix A, section III) to the battles that they fought - against separate armies out of Mordor - while the main action was going on:Įven as Gandalf said afterwards to Frodo and Gimli, when they dwelt together for a time in Minas Tirith. Gimli's own people mainly lived around Erebor, where they moved to after the events of The Hobbit - Balin's expedition to Moria involved just a tiny group of those, not the whole population. There are tons of dwarves, all over the place. This indicates to me that Gimli is, if not the last, one of a very small number of remaining dwarves. Gimli is seen to NOT return to his people after the trilogy.The dwarves don't communicate with each other frequently.No one even discusses calling upon the dwarves for aid against Sauron.Lots of dwarves die in the trilogy and the prequel.This indicates that communication between dwarven kingdoms is infrequent, months or perhaps years without news is not unexpected.

He fully expects to find his cousin and other kin alive and well at Moria, even though they've been dead for quite some time (it takes a LONG time to decompose to purely skeletal remains, especially when you're locked away in a mine with a constant temperature and no elements to contend with). In the movie, Gimli is seen first with 2-3 other dwarves at the council of Elrond, who are not referenced again (at least in the movies). We see scattered references to dwarven kingdoms still existing, yet nowhere in the trilogy does anyone consider calling upon the dwarves for aid. In the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, dwarves play a fairly central role: They drive the entire plot of The Hobbit, and much of Fellowship is centered upon Moria, the dwarven stronghold.

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