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Durin I or Durin the Deathless was the eldest of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves, first created by Aulë the Vala in the First Age. He was called "the Deathless" because he lived to a far greater age than any other dwarf, and was revered by all Dwarves as the eldest of their race.

The tradition among the Dwarves is that Durin was set to sleep alone beneath Mount Gundabad in the north of the Misty Mountains, which remained a sacred place to them ever after. Upon his awakening at some time after the creation of the Elves in Y.T. 1050, he travelled great lengths to the places where the other Fathers of the Dwarves had awoken before eventually arriving at the Mirrormere, a lake in a valley at the feet of the Misty Mountains. There he founded what became the greatest of the Dwarf cities: Khazad-dûm, the Dwarrowdelf, later called Moria. Durin's people were known as the Longbeards or more commonly as the Durin's folk.

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Durin I or Durin the Deathless was the eldest of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves, first created by Aulë the Vala in the First Age. He was called "the Deathless" because he lived to a far greater age than any other dwarf, and was revered by all Dwarves as the eldest of their race.

The tradition among the Dwarves is that Durin was set to sleep alone beneath Mount Gundabad in the north of the Misty Mountains, which remained a sacred place to them ever after. Upon his awakening at some time after the creation of the Elves in Y.T. 1050, he travelled great lengths to the places where the other Fathers of the Dwarves had awoken before eventually arriving at the Mirrormere, a lake in a valley at the feet of the Misty Mountains. There he founded what became the greatest of the Dwarf cities: Khazad-dûm, the Dwarrowdelf, later called Moria. Durin's people were known as the Longbeards or more commonly as the Durin's folk.