Just finished my LOTR marathon

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1. What the hell happened to all of the Dwarves? Is Gimley the last one? They were in the Mines of Moria at one point which I thought was the largest dwarven city. What happened?

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Gimli son of Gloin won considerable renown for the role he played in the War of the Ring. After the war he founded a new Dwarf Kingdom named Aglarond in the caves behind Helms Deep.

Near the end of his life Gimli sailed with Legolas dwarven phalanx TheGoldenSickleAdded by TheGoldenSickle to the undying lands of Valinor. He is likely to be the only Dwarf to ever have made the journey.

Also, after the Battle of Pellenor Fields, a force of 30,000 Longbeards and 20,000 Bardings stood within the Lonely Mountain in a similar castle siege from 200,000 Men of Rhun, who had taken all of Brand's lands, leaving only his capital city of Dale. The Dwarves and Men of Dale stood for three days against the Easterlings, and once the news of Sauron's death spread to the Lonely Mountain, the Easterlings retreated having lost over 100,000 troops, as opposed to the defenders losing 14,000 Dwarves and 12,000 Men. The sturdy nature of the Mountain Rock combined with the Dwarven masonry and the Dwarven quality of the defenders' weapons reduced the hitting power of the Easterlings' [It is uncertain what the Easterlings used for siege, other than that their machines were advanced weaponry] two-armed catapults and semi-automatic ballistas (or, in the movies' case, artillery cannons.), and allowed the defenders to push the attackers away from the Mountain and out of Brand's nation. The last known dwarf of Durin’s Folk was Durin VII who lived at some point in the Fourth Age

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