Dwarves once lived the good life, enjoying a thriving society, but then in came the dragon Smaug, who claimed Erebor for himself, nestling into their mid-mountain pile of gold for a nap and turning the dwarves into a nomadicpeople.
This is the herding dog of the oncenomadic Samoyed people, who roamed across Arctic Asia and now live in the regions of Siberia east of the Ural Mountains.