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Gandalfthegreatestwizard- EpicMithrandir wrote: Grevious, my deluded friend. No one said it was outright fire resistance. But did Aulë create the Dwarves with special fire resistant armour? Do you know how long the Dwarves survived in Khazad-dum, even with a Balrog in the place? Do you know the Dwarves eventually drove the drakes from the Ered Mithrin?

The book says fire. Heat is not equivalent to fire. This isn't about all your theories of how many Dwarves were killed by fire. It's about how Dwarves are resistant to fire. And it certainly isn't just because of their armour.

They survived less thana year with the Balrog, but this is because it takes a year to conquer a city that's been expanded over ten thousand years singlehandedly anyway. The Balrog had no backup. It slaughtered the dwarves in the year it fought them. They remembered it with fear, chief of all of its fire.

King Dáin I was slain by a dragon and the dwarves fled the mountains. Though many of the greater dragons were killed, they had not returned even by the WOTR. There is more evidence towards dwarves burning like normal people than the one line suggesting otherwise.

That isn't even bringing up gameplay. Dwarves are currently the strongest good-side humanoid hireable NPCs in the game (try saying that five times fast.) Fire resistance would throw off balance and make stronger units even stronger. It's unviable for balance.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 20:26, April 17, 2017 (UTC)