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How on earth the Seven Father's of ⛏️Dwarves first breed?!

Goku da Silva

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We all know that this race is one of the great misteries of Tolkien's work, we all know that their female are too few and so alike the males that one cannot tell the diference. But how on earth they first breed if Aulë only created 7 males?!🤔
 
There was apparently a thread on this before, and it answers all relevant questions…save one.

The origin of dwarves

Apparently Aule created mates for six of the seven fathers, but Durin was left alone. That seems to be the tricky question.
 
The Dwarves slept in their separate places until after the Elves awoke first. We can therefore surmise that they awakened shortly after the Elves awoke in Cuiviénen. In that case, they had three ages of the world under the stars to multiply, just as did the Elves, but the generations of the Dwarves was much shorter and thus much more rapid, despite their peculiarities (i.e., some not wanting to marry, some refusing to marry anyone else but their first choice, and only one in three Dwarves being female).

The one interesting rub in this is the awakening of Durin I the Deathless. If memory serves, Durin awoke not in what later became Khazad-dûm, but at Gundabad in the north, where the Misty Mountains intersect the Iron Mountains. That the Orcs later controlled Gundabad was a point of contention between the Dwarves and the Orcs. And as Ihsan997 – Welcome, Ihsan997! – points out, Durin had no mate: he had to take a wife from one of the other Dwarven communities, likely from Nogrod of Belegost because of their proximity.
 
The Dwarves slept in their separate places until after the Elves awoke first. We can therefore surmise that they awakened shortly after the Elves awoke in Cuiviénen. In that case, they had three ages of the world under the stars to multiply, just as did the Elves, but the generations of the Dwarves was much shorter and thus much more rapid, despite their peculiarities (i.e., some not wanting to marry, some refusing to marry anyone else but their first choice, and only one in three Dwarves being female).
Still, more than 13 elves awoke a Cuivienen.
The one interesting rub in this is the awakening of Durin I the Deathless. If memory serves, Durin awoke not in what later became Khazad-dûm, but at Gundabad in the north, where the Misty Mountains intersect the Iron Mountains. That the Orcs later controlled Gundabad was a point of contention between the Dwarves and the Orcs. And as Ihsan997 – Welcome, Ihsan997! – points out, Durin had no mate: he had to take a wife from one of the other Dwarven communities, likely from Nogrod of Belegost because of their proximity.

Maybe he married the daughter of his friends? He'd be very lonely for most of his life (I imagine he'd be wandering for a long time).
 
Ah. Much is now explained.

"Hi-ho, hi-ho, in search of wives we go. . ."
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