Everyone knows what dwarves are good at, and it’s mining. They live in caverns deep beneath the surface of the earth and love it there, digging out treasures that no other race could ever hope to claim. Put a pick in one hand and beer in the other and you’ve got a happy dwarf, but there’s more going on underneath their stocky surfaces than the typical gruff but overall good-natured attitude would indicate. Dwarves tend to be driven by a sense of history, and when that’s coupled with the kind of stubbornness that could be a role model for donkeys you get situations like Moria. While the colony was destroyed because the dwarves dug too greedily and too deep, it was theirs once, and now that the Balrog is dead Gimli wants it back.