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What is your source for this statement?
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A) The word "-dûm"
B) The fact that the Longbeards had all the Misty Mountains north of Khazad-dûm in their gnarled grip for millennia. It is near Gundabad (which was a stronghold of the Longbeards for much of those same millennia).
C) I can't recall ever seeing anything about any Men being in the area. The Men in the general area lived by the river on the other side of the mountains.
You add all these up and you come up with a convincing case.
Tolkien’s essay “Of Dwarves and Men” is very illuminating in issues like this.