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I'm not sure that we can ascribe to these Pre-First Contact Petty-Dwarves a standard of living comparable to their latter-day descendent.
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Why not? Tolkien always pictured things as declining over time and he said that the Petty-Dwarves' smithcraft declined over time.
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