Home to the few herb-gatherers willing to try their luck in the Mistvale. The Grenge (W . "Fish-tellers") , a family of Dwarves exiled long ago from Khazad-dum , maintained the fords over two small streams flowing north into Shading Lake . For reasons clear to noone living , the Arnorian engineers who laid out the Great East Road did not build culverts over these streams . The Grenge , who also owned the Birchline , a small inn at the western crossing , kept to themselves most of the time . Welsi and Tis , the only Dwarven women living publicly in western Eriador , wrapped scarves around their faces . Their general air of exhausted resignation warded off most stares ; the four male Dwarves in the family seldom had to resort to violence to defend their honor or privacy . The source of the s