Seven fathers of the Dwarves

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by alatar

Some would say, like Adam and Eve, that they were more, if not entirely "pure" and so contained no defects, and so random deleterious mutations would take some time to accumulate to observable levels. Surely by this time they found other groups and intermingled.

At least, I hope.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

.....our "Founding Fathers." These men (and women) got the whole process going, but are not the biological sires of all of those that now live here.

Except for Ben Franklin- the randy old goat is probably responsible for a fair chunk of the population...