Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26295802-20160321234711/@comment-26453572-20160608170201

Sinthorion wrote: Vibrava4444 wrote:In Middle Earth things decay through the ages unless they are helped by a higher power, such as the 3 Rings or Sauron's breeeding of Uruks. Thus Orcs in the 3rd Age would be generally weaker than those of the First. That's an interesting theory. I would also see it as a flaw in Eru's power, that he cannot create completely autonomous life.

And it seems that the opposite is true for dwarves: They almost never got help from a higher power, but they often got harm from other powers and lost their homes to orcs and dragons. The rings of power didn't change much for the dwarves. But when they manage to reclaim their mines and cities, they will autonomously grow in wealth and power.

How would that story continue in the Fourth Age, when all higher powers have left the world?

Dwarves peaked and declined towards the end of the Fourth Age.