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Originally Posted by goldfinger
I would think after thousands of years of these three houses living together, they would become intermingled and would no longer be separated by houses but would be of mixed blood lines and be just Durin's folk (those ruled by the line of Durin).
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Well, in my opinion, dwarves probably relied on the "family clan traditions" much, because Thorin mentions himself as being descendant of the Longbeards and he (of course) feels very important. And I think there still might be some of the other clans who would have been heirs to the first Firebeard or Broadbeam who considered themselves "important" as much as Thorin did. But we can only speculate if they took the Durin's heir as their ruler, or if they were "autonomous".
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