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Originally Posted by zxcvbn
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Agreed.
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Read the essay 'Of Dwarves and Men'.
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have read it, but I don't definitely know it by heart.
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Whenever the two races lived close to each other Men had the role of providing food and perishables and Dwarves provided tools, weapons etc.
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But the Dwarves of the Iron Hills or the Dwarves of the Blue Mountains, they didn't have human neighbours - or did they? No big organised settlements, at least.
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The Dwarves may not be very friendly with the Elves but they weren't enemies either. More like neutral. Also, in the Silmarillion it says that though relations between the Dwarves and Elves remained cool, there was a lot of trade between them and both sides profited greatly.
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I'm not questioning the fact, but I'd like to look at it myself. Where is that said?
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And as for the Shire being too far way for trade, how do you think the Dwarves knew of pipe weed?
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I did not mean to say it was too far way for trade, rather that it was too far away for significant regular food supply trade. Besides, if there would have been a considerable amount of Dwarven money and/or goods coming to the Shire this way, I think it would have been mentioned somewhere.