[Dain]

I see it this way: Gundabad was sacked by the rampaging Dwarf army that eventually ended up at the gates of Moria and fought the huge battle of Azanulbizar. The battle was so costly that the dwarves probably could not effectively settle most of the orc strongholds that they sacked. The Dwarves campaign was a war of revenge, not of recapturing lost territory. They probably just cleared Gundabad out and moved on, and then after the final battle, they did not have the strength to return and resettle... [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]