Relations of the Longbeard Dwarves and Men

[Findegil]

This is the first draft of the chapter 2 in the part The Black Years which is named Relations of the Longbeard Dwarves and Men.

In this chapter Of Dwarves and Men (DM) is the basic text.

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Relations of the Longbeard Dwarves and MenDM-SL-01{.(23)}
DM-SL-02{In the Dwarvish traditions of the Third Age the names of the places where each of the Seven Ancestors had 'awakened' were remembered; ... all the kindreds shared a common language.(26)
But in}In far distant days the Dwarves were secretive {[struck out: - and none more so than the Longbeards -]} and had few dealings with the Elves. ... to the marvellous skill which these reached before the decline and dwindling of the Khazâd.
This system developed slowly, ... and though they were the most redoubtable warriors of all the Speaking Peoples they were glad to make alliance with Men.[Footnote to the text: The Dwarves multiplied slowly; but Men in prosperity and peace more swiftly than even the Elves.]
The Men with whom they were thus associated were for the most part akin in race and language with the tall and mostly fair-haired people of the 'House of Hador', ... and at first had regarded the Dwarves askance, fearing that they were under the Shadow (as they said).[Footnote to the text: For they had met some far to the East who were of evil mind. DM-SL-03{[This was a later pencilled note. On the previous page of the typescript my father wrote at the same time, without indication of its reference to the text but perhaps arising from the mention (p. 301) of the awakening of the eastern kindreds of the Dwarves: 'Alas, it}It seems probable that (as Men did later) the Dwarves of the far eastern mansions (and some of the nearer ones?) came under the Shadow of Morgoth and turned to evil.{']}] But they were glad of the alliance, for they were more vulnerable to the attacks of the {Orks}[Orcs]: ... and many were skilled and fearless riders.[Footnote to the text: No Dwarf would ever mount a horse willingly, nor did any ever harbour animals, not even dogs.]
These would often ride far afield as scouts and keep watch on movements of their enemies; ... and there grew up in that region between Dwarves and Men respect and esteem, and sometimes warm friendship.
It was at that time, when the Dwarves were associated with Men both in war and in the ordering of the lands that they had secured,[Footnote to the text: For a time. The Númenorëans had not yet appeared on the shores of Middle-earth, and the foundations of the Barad-dur had not yet been built. It was a brief period in the dark annals of the Second Age, yet for many lives of Men the Longbeards controlled the Ered Mithrin, Erebor, and the Iron Hills, and all the east side of the Misty Mountains as far as the confines of Lorien; while the Men of the North dwelt in all the adjacent lands as far south as the Great Dwarf Road that cut through the Forest (the Old Forest Road was its ruinous remains in the Third Age) and then went North-east to the Iron Hills.DM-SL-04{ [As with so much else in this account, the origin of the Old Forest Road in 'the Great Dwarf Road', which after traversing Greenwood the Great led to the Iron Hills, has never been met before.]}] that the Longbeards adopted the speech of Men for communication with them. ... the name they gave to the prime ancestor of the Longbeards and by which he was known to Elves and Men. (It appears to have been simply a word for 'king' in the language of the Men of the North of the Second Age.)DM-SL-05{(33)} The names of the Longbeards otherwise are not known in lists going back before the ruin of Moria (Khazad-dûm), Third Age 1980; but they are all of the same kind, sc. in a long 'dead' Mannish language.
This can only be explained by supposing that these names from the early Second Age had been adopted by the Dwarves, ... In this way they soon became to later Men specially Dwarvish names,[Footnote to the text: Somewhat similar to the way in which the 'runes' of Elvish origin were widely regarded by Men in the Third Age as a Dwarvish mode of writing.] and the Longbeards acquired a vocabulary of traditional names peculiar to themselves, while still keeping their true 'inner' names completely secret.>

Some comments to the editing:
BY-HL-05: I think there is not much to be said about the title found in DM.

DM-SL-01: A footnote with a comment of Christopher Tolkien removed.

DM-SL-02: The first part was excessively used in the First Age part and is therefore here removed.

DM-SL-03: A comment of Christopher Tolkien in side this footnote is to be removed. So I think we should keep the information about the eastern Dwarves coming ‘under the shadow’.

DM-SL-04: Again a comment of Christopher to be removed from the footnote.

DM-SL-05: A footnote with a comment of Christopher Tolkien removed.

If not commented on, the footnote to text introduce by the Author will remain as footnotes in our text.
With this we reached the place where my drafts change for the first time from Middle-earth to Númenor. Up to this point we have more or less only ‘set the scene’, and we will go on in the same spirit with island of the Dunedain.

Respectfully
Findegil