Re: Waning Friendship between Elves and Dwarves

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> 
> The happier days were sometime in the second age.  So what had
> happened in the meanwhile that would cause the friendship between
> the Dwarves and Elves to wane?  Obviously Celebrimbor and his
> people were wiped out by Sauron, but it does not seem that would
> be attributed to either the Dwarves or Elves.  What else happened
> in that time span that may have legitimately been either the fault
> of the Elves or Dwarves? 

Suspicion brought on by years of separation?  I don't suppose the 
Noldor would have been encouraged to keep in contact with Moria once 
they'd settled in Lorien, and the appearance of the balrog and the 
removal of the dwarves to Erebor would have exacerbated this.  Remember 
that, even during the relatively short period of time between the 
departure of Finrod and its fall, the elves of Nargothrond grew 
lethally suspicious of outsiders.


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