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Also, there is the whole Idea about the other 4 houses of dwarves of the original seven, of whom Durin was the oldest, there are 4 whom we hear nothing of, so they may have come from these houses as well.
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1. They were too far away. The Petty Dwarves were said ot have been the
firstin Beleriand.
2.I doubt whether the 'other houses' (the Blacklocks, Stonefoots, Ironfists and Stiffbeards) were conisdered to be of the 'great houses'.