I dont know about the first fall of Mt. Gundabad, but i do know about its retaking by the dwarves. everybody who has read the appendices will be familiar with the war of the dwarves and orcs, started in vengeance by the dwarves after their king was killed. in third age 2796, they attacked Gundabad and retook it. This is mere presumpsyion, but in the appendices it says they "sacked all the strongholds of the orcs from Mt. Gundabad to the gladden" so i assume they took it right at the beginning - in 2796.
this means in bilbo's time it was in the hands of the dwarves.
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