Interesting...
I guess the reason I assumed Iluvatar gave the Dwarves their own thought was this.
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For thou has from me as a gift thy own being only, and no more; and therefore the creatures of thy hand and mind can live only by that being, moving when thou thinkest to move them, and if thy thought be elsewhere, standing idle.
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Aule doesn't have the power to give them their own minds. I guessed Iluvatar was the only one who could do so. Aule offered the Dwarves to Iluvatar, and he accepts them.