[Lugath jared]

Greetings to you all ! My username is actually the name for one of my characters: a dwarf by the name of Lugath Jared, Considering that most dwarves in fantasies don't have names of that sirt, it shows the overall uniqueness of my dwarven character.

But that's not the gist of this thread. i was just wondering: has anyone found a good fnatasy series that centres upon dwarves ? ANd not elves, humans, orcs, but dwarves mainly ? Please help.

[kegasaurus]

Well, that was misleading. My mind went along a whole different tangent, the cause of my clicking on this thread. I was all ready to share...


I can only think of the dragonlance books. Things like:

The gates of Thorbardin
Stormblade
Flint the king and
The dwarven nations trilogy.

[saintjon]

Second that, dwarven nations is about as dwarfy as they come.

Plus those discobels were friggin cool.

[Keyoke]

Denis L. McKiernan's Silver Call Duology has alot of dwarves, plus his Dragondoom book.

Keyoke :)

[milamber_reborn]

Cool name, Lugath. Fiest's Magician has cool dwarves, but after that book he doesn't use 'em, which is a pity.

[allanon]

And this give me a question - why the authors usually are focusing on elves, but not on dwarves?

[isajeep]

Originally posted by allanon
And this give me a question - why the authors usually are focusing on elves, but not on dwarves?

I think its because by most standards elves are more beautiful, mysterious and noble.

[Nevyn]

Sadley isajeep is correct.

It's the fantasy writing version of the 'body image' thing!
So many stories start off promisingly with Dwarven peoples but fail to deliver.

About the only story that I have read that came through was MS&T-Tad Williams with his Trolls (Trolls=Dwarfs , Sithi=Elves)

[estranghero]

I thought that Tad Williams had his own version of dwarfs? Can't remember their names (dverni? dwergar?) but his trolls were more like... his own version of trolls, I guess. :D

That said, I think it was Mary Varian Berberick(?) who wrote a book about a main dwarf character.

[allanon]

Thanks for the answers...