"They did not hate dwarves especially, no more than they hated everyone and everything, in some parts, wicked dwarves had even made alliances with them." -The Hobbit, Over Hill and Under Hill The Wicked Dwarves were Dwarves who had followed Morgoth in the First Age and Sauron in the Second Age. It has been suggested that the Petty-Dwarves were the descendants of traitors from the eastern tribes of the Khazad who had once supported Morgoth or his servants in the Battle of Palisor. In the Second Age a few wicked Dwarves had allied themselves with Sauron. It was handed down that Durin's Folk was the only house which fought solely on the side of the Last Alliance. Some of the Ironfists and Blacklocks and much later the Dourhands and Shornbeards, renegade factions that had formed out of remnant