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#1 zombiegleemax Dec 23, 2003 1:17:19	I am just curious as to other peoples opinion of this book and how it ended up. First I'd like to say that it was a good story, except for the ending, unless of course they are planning a follow up to it, and I have no reason to see why they wouldn't. Second, I did have a problem with the contradictions this book had with most of the resources pertaining to dwarves and their history. But the story was good enough that I could look beyond these errors and say it was a good story. Most of all beyond the wrong hair colours, wrong number of cities, and the lack of information about Glade Hornfel's demise, I was upset by the degeneration of the Hylar dwarves. Dan Parkinson's depiction of them as the good, just, fair leaders of Thorbardin was totally contradicted by the dealings of Jungor and the other Hylar, it was almost as if Tarn was the only one left who was possessed of the traits of old. I hated to see how the noble peoples of Colin Stonetooth, Willen Ironmaul, and Derkin Winterseed have degenerated into a race that thinks of itself in much the same way the Elves and humans think of themselves better than everyone else. I realize that after being the ruling class for so long, that kind of thing could go to your head, but I would have thought that at least some of the descendants would know better. I have long seen the dwarves degenerate from the race I loved so much in the Dwarven Nations Trilogy. Those books built on the admiration I had for dwarves after reading J.R.R. Tolkien's books, and made them my favorite race, but now it seems as if so many writers want to turn them into humans, as though every race should be as stuck up and snobby as we are. I may have never known Dan Parkinson, but I do miss him, because through his writings I saw dwarves as the hardworking, stubborn, pragmatic people I came to enjoy reading about. I mean no disrespect to Jeff Crook, like I said this book was a fine story, but it did not seem as though it was truly about dwarves.
#2 talinthas Dec 23, 2003 3:26:46	as much as i hate making this type of post, i completely agree. The story in Dark Thane was great. But it just wasnt my thorbardin.