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Tolkien decided that Dwaves would live to right around 250 before dying of old age and would marry and have kids right around 100. It seems really suspicious with how closely that is kept, never varing by more than two or three years.
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Perhaps the Dwarves were more strict about marriage at that time. They probably did not have a great deal of control over the time of their death, but maybe their bodies were just designed to quit at 250 (although Dain lived past 250 and was still going strong before being killed.)
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It's a shame the Dwarves weren't better documented.
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Very true.
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