Durin's Folk

Durin's Folk
   The clan of the Longbeards.
   The Dwarves descended from Durin the Deathless, eldest of the seven Fathers of the Dwarves. Almost all of the Dwarves that appear in Tolkien's works are of this Folk.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary. . 2003.

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