Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26005648-20150223214922/@comment-26116279-20150224201456

No the goblins took over the misties. Moria and a few other places were the only dwarven seettlements in the misties, when durins bane appeared the dwarves fled moria and the last of the the other strongholds had already been abandoned there are no dwarves in the misties because if there were they would have been killed by goblins.