how durin founded the longbeards

[Galin]

Originally Posted by mhagain

[*]CT interprets the "he had no companions" note in Of Dwarves and Men to mean that the other fathers were set down in pairs, and so they had 4 awakening places: the Firebeams and Broadbeams in the west, the Ironfists and Stiffbeards in the east, the Blacklocks and Stonefoots also in the east, and the Longbeards on their own in Gundabad; this interpretation is consistent with JRRT's presentation of the text and there seems no reason to question it.

This is true, and not that you said otherwise but I think the note also later included [since it could agree with] the idea that Durin had no other Dwarves with him as well -- thus he had no companion[s] at his awakening, in the sense that he awoke alone instead of with another Dwarf-father [or companions in potential, as he could have had two fathers awaken with him, for instance], but also had no companions in the sense that his people were other Dwarves that later joined him...

... while the pairs of Dwarf-fathers were to be given other Dwarves, laid to sleep with them.