Seven Fathers of the Dwarves

The Seven Fathers of the Dwarves were the first seven of the founding fathers of the Dwarven race.
==History==
The Vala Aulë created the Dwarves because he was impatient for the arising of the Children of Ilúvatar (Elves and Men). He created seven Dwarves, and was teaching them the language he had devised for them. When Ilúvatar confronted him about what he had done, Aulë prepared to destroy his creations, but Ilúvatar adopted them and gave them life.
However, the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves had to wait until the Elves first arrived, and Aulë laid them to rest in various places in the continent of Middle-earth.
The eldest of all, Durin, "lay alone" at Mount Gundabad in the north of the Misty Mountains. He later founded the line of the Longbeards (or Sigin-tarâg in Khuzdul), the Dwarves of which were most friendly to Elves and Men, mostly referred to as Durin's Folk. His city was Khazad-dûm.
Two others were laid to rest near Mount Dolmed in the Blue Mountains, and they founded the lines of the Broadbeams and the Firebeards who later lived in Nogrod and Belegost. Neither of these father's names are known.
The other four fathers were laid to rest in the far east, two of them at the northern end of the Orocarni, and the other two near the southern end of the range. These founded the lines of the Ironfists and Stiffbeards, and Blacklocks and Stonefoots. No Dwarves of these lines appear in the tales. After the end of the First Age, when the ancestral homes of the Broadbeams and Firebeards were destroyed, these two lines merged with Durin's Folk, so that Khazad-dûm had a mixed population.
Of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves, only Durin is said to have "lain alone". This can be interpreted as referring to the fact he was indeed laid down to rest alone while the other Fathers were laid to rest in pairs, but older versions of the story suggest that it meant Durin alone had no female companion. The other fathers did: references are made by Tolkien to the "Thirteen Dwarves" created by Aulë (Durin and the six pairs). By this version of the story, Durin's Folk was formed out of Dwarves from the other six lines, as a mixed people arose when all Dwarves went to Gundabad.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Dwergevaders
Albanian 	Babai i Xhuxhët
Arabic 	إباء الأقزام
Armenian 	Թզուկների հայրեր
Azerbaijani 	Dwarfların ataları
Basque 	Ipotxen Gurasoak
Belarusian Cyrillic	Айцы Гномаў
Bengali 	ডুয়ার্ফের বাবা
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Бащите на джуджетата
Catalan 	Pares dels Nans
Cebuano 	Mga Amahan sa mga Dwarve
Croatian 	Patuljaka oci
Czech 	Otcové trpaslíků
Danish 	Dværgefædre
Dutch 	Dwergenvaders
Esperanto 	Patroj de la Enanos
Estonian 	Kääbused isad
Finnish 	Kääpiöiden Seitsemän isää
French 	Pères des nains
Galician 	Padres da enanos
Georgian 	მამათა ჯუჯები
German 	Zwergenväter
Greek 	Πατέρες των Νάνων
Hebrew 	האבות של הגמדים
Hindi 	बौने के पिता
Hungarian 	A törpék atyja
Icelandic 	Feður af Dvergarnir
Indonesian 	Ayah para kurcaci
Irish Gaelic 	Aithreacha de na Mion ?
Italian 	Padri dei Nani
Japanese 	ドワーフの父親
Kannada 	ದ್ವಾರ್ವ್ಸ್ನ ಪಿತಾಮಹರು
Kazakh 	Гномдардың әкелері (Cyrillic) Gnomdardıñ äkeleri (Latin)
Korean 	드워프의 아버지
Latin 	Patres Nani
Latvian 	Tēvi no rūķisi
Lithuanian 	Tėvai nykštukai
Luxembourgish 	Zwergerpappen
Macedonian Cyrillic	Отци на Џуџињата
Malaysian 	Bapa daripada orang kerdil
Marathi 	बौने च्या पूर्वज
Norwegian 	Dvergfedre
Persian 	پدران کوتوله‌ها
Polish 	Ojcowie Krasnoludów
Portuguese 	Pais dos Anões
Punjabi 	ਡਵਵਰਜ਼ ਦੇ ਪਿਤਾ
Romanian 	Părinții lui Gnomi
Russian 	Семь Праотцев гномов
Scottish Gaelic 	Athair nan Luspardanan
Serbian 	Патуљци очеви (Cyrillic) Patuljci očevi (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ක්ලවුස් පියවරුන්
Slovak 	Otcovia trpaslíkov
Slovenian 	Škrati očetje
Spanish 	Siete Padres de los enanos
Swahili 	Babu wa Wanaoishi
Swedish 	Dvärgarfäderna
Tamil 	டோவ்ஸ் தந்தையர்
Telugu 	ద్వార్వ్స్ యొక్క ఫాదర్స్
Thai 	บิดาของแคระ
Turkish 	Cüceler Babalarıman
Turkmen 	Derwüş Atalar
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Отці Гноми
Urdu 	آبائے بونوں ?
Vietnamese 	Cha của những người lùn
Welsh 	Tadau'r Chorrach ?
Yiddish 	אבות פון די דוואָרווז
Category:Dwarves
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es:Siete padres de los enanos
it:Padri dei Nani
pl:Ojcowie Krasnoludów
ru:Семь Праотцев гномов