DM-SL-00.5: In this special case I see an easy way out: We could use the first draft version of the text from Appendix B of
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Relations of the Longbeard Dwarves and MenDM-SL-01{.(23)}
DM-SL-00.5b <HoME 12; Part 1; Cha. IX.; Sub-Cha. (iv): Durin’s Folk Durin was the name of one of the fathers of all the race of the Dwarves. In the deeps of time and the beginning of that people he came to Azanulbizar, the Dimrill Dale, and in the caves above {Kibil-nala [> }Kheled-zaram{](1)}, the Mirrormere, in the east of the Misty Mountains, he made his dwelling, where after were the Mines of Moria renowned in song. There long he dwelt: so long that he was known far and wide as Durin the Deathless. Yet he died indeed at the last ere the Elder Days were ended, and his tomb was in Moria; but his line never failed, from father to son, and ever and anon {[> thrice](2)} there was born an heir to that house so like unto his Forefather that he received the name of Durin, being held indeed by the Dwarves to be the Deathless that returned. It was after the end of the First Age that the great power and wealth of Moria began, for it was enriched by many folk and much lore and craft, when the ancient cities of Nogrod and Belegost were ruined in the change of the western world and the breaking of Morgoth.>DM-SL-02{In the Dwarvish traditions of the Third Age ...
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The differences are small, but for me that would be sufficient.
Respectfully
Findegil