The Dwarven Underkingdoms were never conquered, but they were effectively removed from the Great War during it's eighty-second year. Paraidesus thought up of the project, although they were always more advanced with this sort of power than we were.
The Underkingdoms were fuelled by the eternal World-Core. Obviously, the destruction of it would spell the end of Arda, but sealing it off? The project took ten years, its stagnant energies were laid to rest. The Suns under the surface burned out. The Dwarves no longer posed issue.
- Excerpt from "The Great War." Written by the White Pantheon. Kept within the White Pantheon's Closed Library.
