Arcane Topic Warning: Part the Second

[Kuruharan]

they probably met these ousted dwarves firstly.

Yes.

It seems odd that the Petty-Dwarves made no attempt to talk to the Elves even when they were trussed up and roasting on a spit.

I assume everybody does realize that the Elves probably barbequed and ate the Petty-Dwarves that they killed. I mean, why else do you hunt, and the Elves don't seem big on wanton slaughter of anything. The second factor in particular probably goes a long way to explaining the "great offense" of the Dwarves and why they never got on well with the Sindar.

It is a bit ironic (or symmetrical) that the higher cultures of Elves and Dwarves (as they existed on Middle-earth at the time, since the highest Elven cultures were not present) both first made contact with the outcast or more primitive subset of the other.