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Originally Posted by Kuruharan

I have to say I disagree with those. If anything it would be the reverse.

I also think that those numbers are too high. Maybe 4-6,000 might be okay for the Lonely Mountain, but the Iron Hills would be much lower than that.

I forgot to say that the Iron Hills numbers were taken from the time of the Hobbit. Thge Iron Hills was the most capable country in the North to stand in the way of Sauron at the time of the Hobbit, so I calculated that if the 500 that were at the Battle of Five Armies was just around five-ten percent of Dain's army then it would be around 5-10,000. So in a sense it is logical number.
Erebor's numbers were taken from a rough estimate of around 4- to 600,000 Dwarves living in the mountain, and just taking one percent of there population, Considering that active armies (aka trained career soldiers) throughout history have been from as small as less than one percent to as much as five 8 percent of the the population.