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skibble

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Dwarfish books.
« on: November 29, 2010, 06:32:27 pm »
How many good dwarfish books do people know of?

Currently i can only really think of 2.

The Hobbit
Sure the book just follows the epic of a reclaim but hey. What a reclaim it was.

The Dwarfs/ The war of the Dwarfs

The reason i started this thread.. Been flying alot and piced these up for airtime fodder. The seem to use a naming system rather like DF, except alittle less random.

Any others out there? LotR does not count. Theres only one important dwarf in it.
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Re: Dwarfish books.
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2010, 07:47:16 pm »
Some of the Discworld books have some good stories regarding dwarves, I suppose.
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Re: Dwarfish books.
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2010, 07:50:41 pm »
There are a few dwarf related books from Games Workshop, in their WFRP line.  Specifically, Gotrek & Felix jump to mind.  I seem to remember an old Dragonlance book about dwarfs called "streams of silver" or something like that.  You can also browse some Amazon reviews of random "dwarf" books, but every other hit seems to be about Red Dwarf: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Dwarfs&rh=n%3A25%2Ck%3ADwarfs&page=1#

Gotrek & Felix are pretty fun, but Im certainly not vouching for the literary quality of anything here.
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Re: Dwarfish books.
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2010, 08:17:30 pm »
You fool! Books are for humans. Dwarves engrave.
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« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2010, 09:53:12 pm »
Legends mode and a printer with lots of ink.
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Re: Dwarfish books.
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2010, 11:12:20 pm »
Try the Deathgate Cycle series by Weiss and Hickmann. They aren't solely about Dwarves but there are several Dwarf major characters, plus some weird Dwarf societies (in the cool sense).

Quote from: puke on November 29, 2010, 07:50:41 pm
Gotrek & Felix are pretty fun, but Im certainly not vouching for the literary quality of anything here.

Pulpy romps, no more and no less. I liked the ones I read.
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« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2010, 12:15:43 am »
You ready for this? Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Mind blown.
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« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2010, 05:26:09 am »
Quote from: Untelligent on November 29, 2010, 07:47:16 pm
Some of the Discworld books have some good stories regarding dwarves, I suppose.

That's true.
However they don't go as deep as I'd like to.

It's a shame that we will never know more about dwarven-war-bread.
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Re: Dwarfish books.
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2010, 07:14:32 am »
Artemis Fowl?
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« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2010, 07:26:01 am »
Artemis Fowl is nice and all but it's more of Eoin Colfers take on the Lore of the fairies and stuff. Good books but not lore :P
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Re: Dwarfish books.
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2010, 08:01:59 am »
I'd try Salvatore's Drizz't books. They focus a lot on dwarves.
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« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2010, 11:19:35 am »
If you want to be really old-school, you can start reading the Eddas.  Several of them are about Dwarfs.  I think there is a specific one called Alvissmal that is about a Dwarf.
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Re: Dwarfish books.
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2010, 01:59:07 pm »
somehow i know mentioning the Inheritance cycle might be bad.
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« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2010, 04:40:09 pm »
Pretty good should be the Dwarves saga from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Heitz

I plan to take my flatmates books as reading material in the next months
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« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2010, 04:57:06 pm »
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