A real reach here, and done completely without access to source material, but by chance were the "swarthy men" who participated in the Siege of Minas Tirith (think that they had axes) a cross between between men and dwarves? Saruman was doing this with the orcs and men, and so would Sauron do something to produce a race of more controllable dwarves?
Just a thought.
__________________
There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it.
|