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	War of the Dwarves and Orcs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The War began when the elderly exiled Dwarven King Thrór, heir of Durin, wandered alone into Moria and was murdered by Azog the Orc in 2790 of the Third Age.
		Other effects of the war were that the Orcs of the Misty Mountains virtually disappeared as a threat for Eriador and Wilderland: the goblins of the High Pass near Rivendell were some of the few survivors.
		It is probable that without this War and the final slaughter of the Battle of Nanduhirion, the later War of the Ring would have been lost in the north, and the Ring-bearer might never have made it south to Mordor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_of_the_Dwarves_and_Orcs (518 words)

	Battle of Nanduhirion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Battle of Nanduhirion was the last battle in the War of the Dwarves and Orcs.
		The Battle of Nanduhirion, also called the Battle of Azanulbizar after the Khuzdul name, was fought in the year 2799 of the Third Age at the eastern gate of Moria between the Dwarves of all houses, and the Orcs of the Misty Mountains.
		The battle initially went against the Dwarves, for the Orcs had the high ground and the greater numbers, and being a cloudy day in winter there was no sun to bother the orcs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Nanduhirion (341 words)

	Orcs - The Lord of the Rings Wiki
		Orcs are used as soldiers and henchmen by both the greater and lesser villains of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings — Morgoth, Sauron and Saruman.
		Moreover, if Orcs were in fact Elves at their core, this could perhaps mean that they were also immortal — a fact which, if true, would seem inconsistent with Tolkien's treatment of Orcs, although the books do not openly confirm or deny it.
		The Orc incursion in the northern Shire occurred during the reign of Arassuil as Chieftain of the Dúnedain, and the Orcs led by Golfimbul were but the most western pack of Orcs which had left the Hithaeglir.
	lotr.wikia.com /wiki/Orc (3135 words)

	Who were the real heroes of Middle-earth?
		The war of the Noldor against Morgoth is futile because it was spawned by selfish greed and material obsession, begun by Fëanor and consecrated by a deadly oath.
		The War of the Dwarves and Orcs was initiated by an act of cruel murder aimed at Thror whose crime was to (in a state of insanity) wish to revisit his home - Moria.
		So it’s relatively safe to say that the War of the Ring is akin to the War of Wrath, one in which those responsible for it in the first place seek pity and forgiveness so that they may overcome the bad roots they have sown and which threaten to destroy them and their world.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/tolkien/83269/694914 (2058 words)

	Orcs
		In 2793, the war of the Dwarves and Orcs begun, caused by the murder of Thror in 2790 by the Orc-chieftain Azog who had taken over Moria at the command of Sauron.
		At the time, the Orcs were growing in numbers again, and in 2994 they destroyed Balin's colony in Moria under the command of the Balrog, and settled there once again.
		Some Orcs under his command adopted the language, but the reform was never any success, though it had an influence on the other Orc-languages and all of Sauron's higher officers spoke it regularly.
	www.tolkienonline.de /etep/O/orcs.html (928 words)

	Orcs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Most were destroyed by the Valar with the chaining of Melkor, in the War of the Powers, at the end of the First Age of the Stars.
		At the East Gate of Moria, the Dwarves defeated the Orcs in the bloody Battle of Azanulbizar, and the head of the Orc general, Azog, was impaled on a stake.
		Bolg, son of Azog, sought revenge on the Dwarves in the Battle of Five Armies, that was sparked by the death of the Dragon Smaug in the year 2941.
	www.btinternet.com /~p_cooper/orcs.html (909 words)

	Them Dwarves, Them Dwarves, Part II
		Orcs began invading Eriador around 2740 and by the year 2758 Sauron was ready to launch a massive stroke against Gondor, Rohan, and apparently even Eriador.
		The misfortunes of the Dwarves were thus coming to their end, and their fortunes (at least those of the Longbeards) began rising again.
		All seven kindreds mustered armies for the war of vengeance against the Orcs of the Misty Mountains.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/tolkien/29244/7 (535 words)

	Khazad-dum / Moria
		Around the year 40, many Dwarves came to Khazad-dum from the Blue Mountains after the Dwarf cities of Nogrod and Belegost were destroyed during the War of Wrath with Morgoth at the end of the First Age.
		During the War of the Last Alliance at the end of the Third Age, some Dwarves from Khazad-dum fought with the Men and Elves against the forces of Sauron.
		The Dwarves were enraged, and Thror's son Thrain mustered an army to wage war against the Orcs of the Misty Mountains in 2793.
	www.tuckborough.net /moria.html (3445 words)

	RingenesHerre.no (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		These Dwarves forged the weapons for the Sindar, and built for the Grey-elves of King Thingol their citadel of Menegroth, the Thousand Caves, reputed to be the finest mansions in Middle-earth.
		All the Dwarves rallied together to engage the Orcs in what was expediently named the War of Dwarves and Orcs, which raged for seven long and bloody years.
		In the year 2799, the Dwarves reached the East Gate of Moria and fought in the Battle of Azanulbizar where the Orcs of the North were virtually exterminated, but the victory cost them half their warriors.
	www.ringenesherre.no /artikler/artikler_dverger_eng.html (1449 words)

	Encyclopedia of Arda: Battle of Nanduhirion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The climactic battle in the War of the Dwarves and Orcs, also called the Battle of Azanulbizar and the Battle of the Mines of Moria, that took place below of the East-gate of Moria in the winter of III 2799.
		That event triggered a furious backlash from the Dwarves, who assembled their armies and, in their quest for revenge against Azog, began the systematic destruction of the Orcs of the Misty Mountains.
		The Dwarves under Thráin II, though, were better equipped, and were rallied late in the battle by the arrival of reinforcements, commanded by Thráin's cousin Náin.
	www.glyphweb.com /arda/b/battleofnanduhirion.html (240 words)

	WoW.com -> Info -> Races -> Orcs
		Born on the hellish world of Draenor, the Orcs were brought into the kingdom of Stormwind through the dimensional gateway known as the Dark Portal and forced to wage war on the Humans.
		Tragically, the proud Orc clans were corrupted by the Burning Legion and used as pawns in the Legion's invasion of Azeroth.
		The Orcs managed to rebel, however, and they were ultimately able to help turn the tide against their demon masters.
	www.worldofwarcraft.com /info/races/orcs.html (189 words)

	Azog - Tolkien Gateway
		The average lifespan of an Orc is unknown, but it is conceivable that he was one of those sent to Moria by Sauron in about T.A. He had one son that we know of, Bolg, who succeeded him after his death.
		So began the War of the Dwarves and Orcs: the Dwarves hunted Azog, and many battles were fought beneath the earth.
		The Dwarves made no attempt to press their advantage, though, because Dáin had glimpsed Durin's Bane during his battle, and warned the Dwarves not to attempt to enter Moria.
	tolkiengateway.net /wiki/Azog (398 words)

	The Battle of the Five Armies \| Lord of the Rings Fanatics Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As war was about to break between the three races, the goblins, lead by Bolg, son of Azog (who had been slain by Dain in the Battle of Dwarves and Orcs), arrived with Wargs to revenge the slaying of their leader.
		But still, the Orcs were now fearsome and were about to be victorious until the Eagles of Hithaeglir (the Misty Mountains) came and joined the battle against the Orcs and their Wargs.
		The Elves, Dwarves and Men received also the aid of Beorn, who came in the form of a giant bear, and it was he who killed Bolg, a victorious move because when the goblins saw their leader dead, they started to flee from the battle in fear.
	www.lotrlibrary.com /agesofarda/battleoffivearmies.asp (859 words)

	Tildruin - Giants Hill [Fantasy RPG Online]
		The orcs scattered across the Whispering Plains to escape the wrath of pursuing elves and dwarves, but several tribes fled north instead into the Barrier Mountains.
		With the aid of skills acquired during their war against the dwarves, the orcs quickly established mines and forges.
		The betrayal by the Kharbesh orcs was repaid in blood, when they were denied safe passage through Ograkk from their pursuers, the Odar humans.
	www.tildruin.com /orcs_ograkk.asp (262 words)

	The history of Dwarves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thus the Dwarves of Belegost could stop the advance of the Dragon-horde, and, though slain in the act King Azaghâl drove his sword in the belly of Glaurung, the Father of Dragons, and so Glaurung and his brood fled from the battle field.
		This was the terrible and bloody War of the Dwarves and Orcs.
		At the war's end, Gimli had taken many of the Dwarves out of the kingdom under the Mountain into the wondrous caverns of Helm's Deep, and by all he was named lord of Aglarond, the "glittering caves".
	www.phys.uu.nl /~hentzen/history.html (2381 words)

	Them Dwarves, Them Dwarves, Part II — Merp.com Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Dwarves of Ered Luin (the Firebeards and Broadbeams) were also closely associated with Elves and probably interacted with Men in the Second and Third Ages as well as the Shire Hobbits in the Third Age, but they seem to have become relatively few in number after the First Age...
		The Dwarves of Ered Luin may have developed the most sophisticated civilization among their kind during the First Age because of their friendship with the Elves of Beleriand, whose civilization was the highest, most advanced culture in Middle-earth.
		These Dwarves probably lived in a similar relationship with their neighbors to Khazad-dum's great alliances, but they were few in number and not seriously threatened by Orcs or dragons, so they do not play any roles in the great wars of the Second Age.
	www.merp.com /essays/MichaelMartinez/michaelmartinezsuite101essay21/view (3985 words)

	VN Boards - Dwarves
		In the War of the Ring, the Dwarves of Erebor were attacked by Sauron's forces and fought at Erebor, eventually destroying them when the ring was destroyed.
		And the dwarves fought most notable in the Nirnaeth Aernoedidad, where they covered the retreat of the Sons of Feanor and prevented the elves from being exterminated that same day.
		Dwarves fought in the 1st age in their own defense and to aid their 'allies' (the elves).
	vnboards.ign.com /Message.aspx?topic=40851343 (1173 words)

	Encyclopedia of Arda: War of the Dwarves and Orcs
		Triggered by the slaying of King Thrór of the Dwarves by the goblin Azog
		A great war of the later Third Age between the Dwarves and Orcs.
		Precipitated by the murder of King Thrór by the Orc-chieftain Azog, the War lasted nine years, and the Orcs were eventually defeated at the Battle of Nanduhirion.
	www.glyphweb.com /arda/w/warofthedwarvesandorcs.html (145 words)

	Guide B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 2790, Balin followed King Thrain II into the bloody War of Dwarves and Orcs, after which he settled for a time in a Dwarf-colony in the Blue Mountains.
		In Khuzdul, the language of the Dwarves, it was Gabilgathol, or Mickleburg.
		Bolg of the North was the son of Azog, the Orc King who was slain by Dain Ironfoot in the Battle of Azanulbizar at the end of the War of the Orcs and Dwarves.
	www.btinternet.com /~p_cooper/guide_b.html (2511 words)

	Lord of the Rings Fanatics Library - History of Moria in the 3rd Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Dwarves apparently tried to resist for approximately one year (Náin I was slain in 1981), but in 1981 Khazâd-dûm was abandoned.
		The Orcs were driven from the Misty Mountains by the Dwarves during the War of the Dwarves and Orcs (2793-2799, III), but returned in probably less than 100 years.
		The Dwarves, led by Balin son of Fundin, made an attempt to retake Khazâd-dûm in 2989, III, but five years later Balin was killed by the Orcs, and the dwarven colony was destroyed.
	www.lotrlibrary.com /agesofarda/dangerinmoria.asp (735 words)

	The Grey Havens - Dwarves: Dwarf list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Killed Azog in Azanulbizar in 2799, became the lord of the Dwarves in the Iron Hills in 2805.
		Lord of the Dwarves of Nogrod in FA.
		This led to the War of Dwarves and Orcs.
	tolkien.cro.net /dwarves/list.html (1531 words)

	synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The war in the lowlands was over in a matter of months, but fighting in the narrow mountain passes of the Ubermir mountains and deep in the Ansymar forest lasted for many years and occasional bursts of violent conflict continued long after the main strongholds of the orcs and dwarves fell.
		Meanwhile the freedom-loving forest orcs were taken from their shady forest shrines and hamlets and forced to work the mines, where countless died from darkness, overexhaustion and silicosis.
		Dwarves and orcs learned some of the human magic, although it wasn’t easy and for the trolls, magic remained a closed book.
	www.worldforge.org /worlds/eonia/races/synopsis (595 words)

	Tolkienion Lexicon Letter N
		The Nandor were those Elves from the host of the Teleri who refused to cross the Misty Mountains on the westward journey from Cuiviénen, but of whom a part, led by Denethor, came long afterwards over the Blue Mountains and dwelt in Ossiriand (as the Green-elves).
		One of the Three Rings of the Elves, the Ring of Fire or the Red Ring; borne by Círdan and afterwards by Mithrandir.
		Made for Finrod Felagund by the Dwarves, brought by Húrin out of Nargothrond to Thingol, and the cause of his death.
	www.tolkienion.com /lexicon/comp_n.html (969 words)

	Of Fire and Stars, by Ro
		A few of the Dwarves who were going on the quest were also present in the barn for this meeting huddled around the small fire in the center of the barn (carefully made so it would not catch the barn on fire).
		A few Orcs to their left moved out of the way to let another group of battered Men and Dwarves to be driven in to join their surrounded group, the Orcs closing the gap as soon as the last Man was through.
		The Orcs had no fear of the them escaping, the end of their long connecting chain being locked to one of the tunnels thick wooden support beams, that were placed strategically throughout the mine shafts to keep the tunnels stable.
	axebow.hakaze.com /fic/fic-ro-fire.htm (24674 words)

	Mount Gundabad - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		According to the Dwarves, Durin the Deathless, oldest of the Fathers of the Dwarves, awoke at Mount Gundabad in the north of the Misty Mountains shortly after the awakening of the Elves.
		In the middle of the Second Age, however, the Orcs (who were ruled by the servants of Sauron) invaded the mountains again and took Gundabad.
		After the fall of Angmar Gundabad remained an Orc stronghold, until it was cleaned of Orcs during the War of the Dwarves and Orcs.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Mount_Gundabad (177 words)

	Lord of the Rings: Dwarven Kingdom Khazad-dûm
		Once a glorious city representing the pride and glory of dwarves Khazad-dum fell into the dark for many years, the once glorious halls of the dwarves were turned into the realm of evil a domain ruled over by Durins Bane, the dwarves punishment for delving too deep.
		Some thirty years ago dwarves from the lonely mountain mounted the largest offensive since the war of the Dwarves and Orcs.
		Dwarves and guests shall receive a hearty welcome in one of our Pubs and newer folk can be welcomed with a smile in the Welcoming Centre.
	www.lotrplaza.com /dwarves (400 words)

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