 Mîm became the possessor of a treasure-hoard abandoned by the dragon Glaurung, but was killed by Húrin, Túrin's father.The Dwarves are portrayed as an ancient people who awoke, like the Elves, at the start of the First Age, before the existence of the Sun and Moon (the Elves, however, awakened first).The story of the creation of the Dwarves is told in "The Silmarillion".