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FIREBEARDS & LONGBEAMS DWARVES

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These two Dwarf clan army's can have a max. of 1754 Dwarves (@50:1 scale that is 39 figures). As they live among the Longbeard Dwarves they have no additional troops if their homeland is invaded.
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The Firebeards and Broadbeams are two of the seven ancient Houses of the Dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, but they have a minimal direct presence in the main narrative of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. Their history is detailed primarily in The Silmarillion and the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings. 
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The Firebeards and Broadbeams were two of the three original kindreds of Dwarves to awaken in the western part of Middle-earth (the other being the Longbeards). They awoke in the Blue Mountains (Ered Luin). They founded the great Dwarf-cities of Nogrod (Firebeards) and Belegost (Broadbeams) in the Blue Mountains during the First Age.
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The Lord of Belegost, Azaghâl, was the only Dwarf known to have withstood dragon-fire in battle, notably wounding the dragon Glaurung during the Battle of Unnumbered Tears. The Firebeards of Nogrod were infamous for their part in the slaying of the Elf-king Thingol and the sack of his halls, Menegroth, out of greed for the Nauglamír necklace and a Silmaril.

Migration to Khazad-dûm: After the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age, the Blue Mountains were ruined. Most of the surviving Firebeards and Broadbeams left their former cities and migrated to the great city of Khazad-dûm (Moria) in the Misty Mountains, swelling the ranks and wealth of the Longbeards (Durin's Folk). By the time of The Lord of the Rings, the Firebeards and Broadbeams no longer existed as distinct, independent kingdoms. Their people had largely integrated with Durin's Folk.
 
Members of these clans were part of the general Dwarf population in various settlements, including the Blue Mountains (where some remained), the Iron Hills, and later Erebor (the Lonely Mountain). The seven Houses of the Dwarves (including the Firebeards and Broadbeams) were summoned to join the War of the Dwarves and Orcs in the Third Age, showing they maintained a connection with the Longbeards even if their independent realms were long gone.

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