Unswerving and proud, Dwarves can not be dominated by another will, and never forget a wrong or a debt. Their greatest flaws are a tendency toward wrath, possessiveness, and gold-lust. Dwarves live about 250 years and marry around the age of 100. Few females are born among them, and these look to non-Dwarves just like male Dwarves.
All Dwarves wear beards, even from birth.
Dwarven society is male dominated, and rarely do Dwarven women go to war or wander far abroad, for they are few and the continuation of the race depends on their safety. Although like mortal Men the Dwarves do die of old age, like the immortal Elves they do not leave this sphere, and are gathered into the Halls of Mandos. The Elves, however, claim that the Dwarves have no life beyond Arda and the death of their bodies. In battle the Dwarven hero has a definite advantage. Against such foes Men and Elves are generally more successful.