@tolkienocweek day six | original peoples | the sun-dwarves
The Blacklock dwarves and their sister-clan the Stonefoot dwarves dwell in the mountains of the Walls of the Sun in the East of Middle-earth. They are known by their western kin as the Sun-dwarves, for their lands are ever under the Sun’s light, and they honor her as a spirit of fire akin to Mahal their maker. The Sun-dwarves are more open to trade with other races than some of their kindred, and trade with the many tribes of Men in the Lands of the Sun as well as the Kindi tribe of elves who reside on the seaward side of the mountains. Yet though Men, elves, and dwarves dwell in harmony in the Sun-stained East, it is the dark spirit Lord Túvon who rules the lands from the eastern oceans to the sea of Rhûn. Túvon was once a servant of Morgoth, though he took no part in the horrors of Beleriand, and uses many of his old master’s powers in his own realm. It is Túvon who stole the dwarven-rings of the Stonefoot and Blacklock kings by trickery and force, breeding dragons and dreadful serpents to do his bidding and turning the hearts of ambitious dwarven sorcerors to his evil magics. Only Thû Sunlord, known in the Westlands as Sauron the Terrible, is greater than Túvon, and his reign is feared much more by the Sun-dwarves than the familiar tyranny of the Túvon.
