Seven Fathers of the Dwarves: Made by the Valar Aulë. Illúvatar would not allow them to become the Firstborn, he decreed that they should sleep under stone until such time as the Elves awakened.
From The Silmarillion
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'stone-hard, stubborn, fast in friendship and in enmity, and they suffer toil and hunger and hurt of body more hardily than all other speaking peoples; and they live long, far beyond the span of Men. yet not forever...'
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