It appears, as has already been mentioned, that Dwarves, like Hobbits were destined to continue but to leave more secluded lives. Hobbits seem to live lives like our 'Leprechauns' (spelling?), small little blighters which are impossible to catch or even see, and thus they enter the realm of fantasy. Dwarves seem to just continue on in their mountains, or maybe now have adapted to completely underground lives?
On the subject of an 'Age of Dwarves' - no. Elves were the Firstborn Children of Iluvatar and the First theme Iluvatar set into the Music of the Ainur. They were destined to start greatly and then deminish later. Unlike Men who spent long years under their shadow, and then rose up to become the dominate race after the Second Age.
Dwarves were not the Children of Iluvatar. At least not his own (though of course everything was his own, being the Allfather, but lets not dig too deep a hole to get out of here and keep things simple). They were his adopted Children. But they did not have their own theme in the Music of the Ainur, and thus their history isn't as great or as noted as it is with Elves and Men. This is why Dwarves have never had a golden age nor a downfallen age. You could say their downfall was when they awoke Durin's Bane I suppose. But basically Dwarves have always been the side-liners. Never rising to a dominate power but just continuing on their existance on the borders of Elvers and Men.
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