King of Khazad-dûm
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King of Khazad-dûm is an honorific earned by the King of Durin's Folk who ruled from inside Moria, the Khazad-dûm.
This title is by the one that by far most Longbeard kings have held - for the many thousands of years that the Dwarrowdelf was inhabited by Durin's Folk. The names of these kings, however, are mostly unknown through the times, with but a few famed exceptions.
The title has been given to the following Longbeard Kings, among many others:
- Durin the Deathless - the ancestor of all Longbeard dwarves, who awoke in Gundabad and traveled from there to found his dwarf-kingdom in Khazad-dûm.
- Durin II - also ruled in Gundabad during his lifetime.
- Dwalin II - who was slain by orcs, which instigated the First War of Dwarves and Orcs, led by his son Dwalin III.
- Dwalin III - who convened the Third Great Moot and waged the First War of Dwarves and Orcs in revenge for his father's death, a conflict which resulted in his own death in the last battle.
- Durin III - who aided the elves of Eregion in their war against Sauron, and also convened the Fourth Great Moot.
- Durin IV - who led the dwarven contingent during the siege of Barad-dûr at the end of the Second Age.
- Durin V - who slew and was slain by the dragon Thorog in the Misty Mountains.
- Fundin II - a famous stonecarver who did stonework in Azanulbizar
- Kalin VI the Young - Fundin's son, who inherited the throne before he was of age.
- Thrór I - known only through the lore surrounding the earring Ferollos, but whose reign is otherwise undocumented.
- Dwalin XI - who's people waged war against the Zhélruka during an unknown conflict.
- Balin V - who convened the Fifth Great Moot to settle the ownership of the Grey Mountains.
- Durin VI - who was killed when Durin's Bane was freed from the depths
- Náin I - who was also killed by the same Balrog one year later. Náin would be the last king of Khazad-dûm, as his son Thráin I led his people away from Moria to found Erebor in the north.
