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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yuan-Ti" data-source="post: 1854710" data-attributes="member: 4483">Going back nearly 2 decades... Dennis McKiernan wrote a trilogy about these little people who go on a quest to save their world from an evil overlord who lives in a volcano and sends out bands of orcish creatures to conquer the world. Along the way they form a fellowship with heroes from other races in the world, including elves and dwarves and, IIRC, travel beneath a mountain in an ancient dwarven city, now controlled by orcish creatures, and so on ad nauseam... I think what really struck me as interesting about the series was how, at the end of the trilogy (I couldn't not finish books back then) these little people, having saved the world, return home to their village and have to defeat some thugs who have taken over in their absence. Gee, I don't think there could have been a more original ending ever invented for a fantasy series. As a reviewer at Amazon said of this series: "It starts of in the land of the small, quiet people and the quest is for the bad sorcerer/overlord to be overthrown forever. The hero from the small, quiet people will have as his companions an uncrowned king of men, a warrior-elf, and a mighty dwarf. They will be forced to travel through an ancient dwarven kingdom under a mountain range that has become the haunt of the demonic creature....the final battle is not so much a forlorn hope as it is a diversion..."<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451458109/qid=1100415660/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-2301772-9303367?v=glance&s=books" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451458109/qid=1100415660/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-2301772-9303367?v=glance&s=books</a></blockquote>

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