Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26005648-20150223214922/@comment-26116279-20150227152235

The dwarves prefered mountainous regions with a lot of precious metals like the blue mountains, misty mountains and orocarni. The other mountain regions might not have had as much gold, and other precious metals. Also the dwarves might have wanted to stick together in ME and few probably would have migrated to the south of middle earth when they already had large cities and strongholds in the north where they would be safe.