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[Areyar]

Just finished reading a Warhammer40000HorusHeresy book called Mechanicum.
From the start it reminded me of DF.

Massive forge complexes,
Magma fed foundries ,
fey moods creating artifact mechanisms ,
deeply buried fun stuff
and finally  "F the world" levers making the forges and countyside flood with lava.

[BigFatDwarf]

All Pratchett's Books remind me of DF. Because of the humor. Both are hilarious to the end.

[Lord Dakoth]

Don't know about books, but the game Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind gives me DF flashbacks over and over again.

To explain, dwarves are basically extinct in that game.
(Don't read if you plan on playing Morrowind but haven't finished the storyline yet)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

All the dwarves tried to create a god in a giant cave of magma. Then some high and mighty god got all pissed off at them and smote them with disaster after disaster...

Eventually, you go on a quest to find any surviving dwarves. Turns out that the last one is a blinded cripple who lives in an infirmary...

[Granite26]

A large number of Salvatore's books involving the dwarfs...

[Areyar]

Hmm morrowind dwemer. . . you can read all about their demise in books even without going through the storyline. They never made me think of DF ...though they DO tend to have large cogs lying around their digs . . . and some had lava features.

[Chalk]

I am so happy this topic got made; this quote has been bookmarked for about a month now while I thought of a good way to segue into the topic.

From Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, pg. 182 (referring to the Royal Society):
"...some as thin-jaw'd and heavy-ey'd, with abstemious Living and nocturnal Study as if, like Pharaoh's Lean Kine, they were designed by Heaven to warn the World of a Famine, others looking as wild, and disporting themselves as frenzically, as if the Disappointment of their Projects had made them subject to a Lunacy."

Apparently 17th century natural philosophers had a distinctly dwarfy bent to their labors.

[Im_Sparks]

The shadow over Innsmouth's Deep Ones kind of reminded me of dwarves.
Reclusive, insane freaks who dwell in the deep and worship evil dead gods.

[filiusenox]

Markus Heitz's Dwarves book.Love it! just finished reading it.

Hatred of elves,masive tunnels,and fey moods.


READ IT

[Zironic]

The short story - The Cold Equation.

A man was forced to kill a girl by forces higher than him - by a lever.

[HatfieldCW]

Hehehe, This game needs airlocks.

[ChairmanPoo]

I'm pretty sure Airlocks can be built as it is
                P-------------Power Source(Perpetual movement machine?)
    WWWWSWWWW
   D1                     D2
   WWWWWWWWW

SP is a water pump. D are doors. W are walls.

You could possibly even add a pressure plate to detect the presence of water and trigger the pump accordingly.

[Zironic]

Hehehe, This game needs airlocks.

Space, Magma  - They both have extremely negative effectives on one's health. I like to believe the girl survived. She some how evolved space gills or a meteor lung.

[Specialist290]

The Hobbit.

Of course, it's a given considering that pretty much every single depiction of dwarves ever was influenced by this book, but a few of the particulars that really hit home:

--Bilbo killing giant spiders by throwing rocks at them
--A settlement that incorporates an underground cave river (OK, to be fair, it's an elven one...)
--An archer taking down a megabeast (dragon) with one shot

[puke]

The Hobbit.

Of course, it's a given considering that pretty much every single depiction of dwarves ever was influenced by this book

gosh, and here i always thought the tone for dwarfs was set by the stores compiled in the Eddas or something. 

[Areyar]

Dwarves in the Edda are sad little tinkering kobolds who live under hills....erm.
So yeah, you are right. Tolkien was very fond of Scandinavian mythology and made dwarves from the dupes of Loki into wholesome and noble masterminers.

So does that make DF more like the Edda or more like Tolkien? Our dwarves are pretty grimy and their rulers are pretty petty/evil, then again: megaprojects!
(and the inevitable downfall)