Quote Originally Posted by MadeofLions View Post
The specifics and timing of things in the Elder Days obviously get into things we can't talk about in too much detail, but Motsog also had a much longer than normal lifespan -- he awoke shortly after Durin, well before the appearance of Men. I'm not sure what you mean by 'why are there dragons still around?' since they were very much involved in the Biggest Of Battles at the end of the First Age, which means they're fair game at the time of the Sunder-battle, which is about two hundred years before that.

MoL
~200 years before the end of the First Age? Ooh, that's some new info! While you're at it, I also want to clear up a point from Legacy of Durin. After seeing a vision of Durin VI being slain by Durin's Bane and Durin V slain by Thorog, Prince Durin asks Mótsog, "Does it always end thus?" and Mótsog answers, "Aye. That is the fate of Durin in every age in which he appears."

So this sounds like in your version of the story, every Durin dies violently, right? Durin IV could have easily died during the War of the Last Alliance, and Durin I in the wars of the First Age. But last we saw Durin III was sealing Khazad-dûm, and all we know of Durin II is he invited the Zhélruka to Gundabad. How do you imagine they met their ends? Or are you saving that for future story?