According to 'Tolkien Gateway', their average height is between 4-5' tall but there's no weight range guesstimates. I assume they're pretty well built and muscular, especially the 'warrior class', but I can find no weight charts. A solid healthy weight for a 5' tall human male is about 125 pounds. How stocky are these guys?
Answer
Using a very powerfully built 5' tall adult human male and the following description from the Silmarillion, we can arrive at a reasonable guestimate of the body weight of the average healthy adult Dwarf male.
"Since they were to come in the days of the power of Melkor, Aulë made the dwarves strong to endure. Therefore they are stone-hard, stubborn, fast in friendship and in enmity, and they suffer toil and hunger and hurt of body more hardily than all other speaking peoples; and they live long, far beyond the span of Men, yet not forever." ― The Silmarillion, "Of Aulë and Yavanna" http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Dwarves<
Considering that a human world class Olympic level power-lifter standing 5' tall (the upper limit of Dwarf height) weighs in at about 140 pounds and that someone 6" shorter (comparable to average Dwarf height) would be comparatively lighter. And factoring in that a Dwarf frame and musculature is likely more dense than a human so we can add back that body mass plus a bit more. The final factor to consider is that Legolas and Gimli doubled-up while riding Arod in their search for Merry and Pippin. Their combined weight was less than if either had doubled up with Aragorn on Hasufel. This leads to the conclusion that though a Dwarf is more 'dense' than a comparable height human, their body weight is not equal to an average size human male.
Based on these factors and the evidence above, and subject to further information or disclosure, it can reasonably be concluded that the average healthy adult Dwarf male weighs in at approximately 150 pounds.
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