There's no evidence those rings worked out like Sauron hoped, though - didn't I read somewhere that he was frustrated that the dwarves basically took them and kept right on doing their own thing? (Or am I remembering something from fic?)
Huh. I missed that there were a few dwarves on Sauron's side. But a few dwarves in the middle of all that hardly counts as a dwarf-elf war I would think. I mean, you say 'dwarf-elf war' and I expect a throwdown that's more or less between them, not a sprinkling of dwarves in Sauron's forces...
But even assuming that Thranduil's fought dwarves serving Sauron, Thorin and company are descendants of Durin, and so were a) allies in that fight and b) not part of the dustup in Menegroth back in the First Age either. The only complaint I can see that anyone could level against the Longbeards is waking up Durin's Bane, and I don't recall that causing issues for the elves, only for the dwarves of Moria themselves.
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Date: 2018-12-08 12:44 am (UTC)Huh. I missed that there were a few dwarves on Sauron's side. But a few dwarves in the middle of all that hardly counts as a dwarf-elf war I would think. I mean, you say 'dwarf-elf war' and I expect a throwdown that's more or less between them, not a sprinkling of dwarves in Sauron's forces...
But even assuming that Thranduil's fought dwarves serving Sauron, Thorin and company are descendants of Durin, and so were a) allies in that fight and b) not part of the dustup in Menegroth back in the First Age either. The only complaint I can see that anyone could level against the Longbeards is waking up Durin's Bane, and I don't recall that causing issues for the elves, only for the dwarves of Moria themselves.