Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25344655-20151118032015/@comment-27718380-20151118102619

The thing is, almost all of the dwarves of Erebor sheltered in Lothlóriën, at least for a time. If we consider this to be half of them, you are saying that 15,000 dwarves were sheltered by about 20,000 elves. Which could be done, but is very unlikely.