

Particularly notable are Thorin, Fíli, and Kíli, who all benefit from varying degrees of Adaptational Attractiveness, with Kíli's Perma-Stubble practically making him a Bishōnen by dwarf standards. In the films, the dwarves are all short, hairy, and crusty, but they have great variety in their faces, beards, clothing, body types, personalities and weaponry. Gimli at one point plays with this where he tells Éowyn stories of his entire race being this trope, which he thinks is utterly ridiculous. One-Gender Race: Subverted in The Hobbit, where in the prologue, the dwarven women of Erebor are depicted as noticeably more feminine.Averted in The Hobbit, where other weapons are just as prominent. A consequence of Aulë making his Dwarves hardy and difficult to corrupt or trick for the exact purpose of countering Melkor's wicked influences. To cite the most evident example, Sauron's One Ring utterly enslaved the wearers of the Nine (and supposedly would have done so for the Three as well): of the seven dwarf-kings, only two wearing the Rings of the Dwarves were pulled toward The Dark Side, but retained their own wills of the other five, two turned against Sauron, and the other three stayed neutral. Heroic Willpower: Race-wide (and justified in the story of their creation).Fighting for a Homeland: Erebor in The Hobbit, Khazad-dûm in the Backstory to The Lord of the Rings.It's implied that they become extinct some time in the Fourth Age.

The constant warfare after the fall of Khazad-dûm didn't help. Dying Race: Dwarves have an abysmally low birth rate due to men outnumbering women three to one, and the women's frequent unwillingness to take a husband.
#Dain became king under the mountain free
Small like Hobbits but physically much tougher than nearly any other Free Peoples, except maybe the Ents. One reason that Dain would be given rule over the Lonely mountain would be that Fili would have very little experience in ruling the dwarves.Great craftsmen who live in mines and palaces under the Earth. Though I believe the confusion is that both Fili and Kili "had fallen defending him with shield and body" making there no need for Tolkien to inform us of what happened if they lived. Since Thorin has no children, Fili, being Thorin's sister's oldest son, would be the heir. Ought we rephrase the article so as not to state it positively? Tolkien only states that Dain was the rightful heir after saying that both Kili and Fili died along with Thorin.- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 13:26, 21 June 2014 (UTC) But Dáin Ironfoot, his cousin, who came from the Iron Hills to his aid and was also his rightful heir, became then King Dáin I. However, it could be implied from the ordering of sentences like this: "There fell also Fíli and Kíli, his sister-sons. But you're right in that Tolkien never explicitly said so. I think it's a fair assumption that Fili was Thorin's heir. Does anyone have more information on this than I do?

It is possible that in Dwarf culture the succession could not pass through the female line (Dis), and thus Fili would not be his uncle's heir, though he is closest of kin. I do not recall any such statement anywhere in the legendarium, though Tolkien refers to Dain Ironfoot as Thorin's heir. On the Fili page it states that he is Thorin's heir and should become King under the Mountain after his uncle's death. Tolkien Gateway > Forums > Fili-future King under the Mountain?
