Finally, and most irking is the choice of language in what scraps of description there is. Firstly, the contradiction is that there simply is far too much happening, and so the author moves characters hundreds of miles or ''orbits'' which took me an eon to correctly discover represented days, at a time. Other irritances is the rate at which the story unfolds. Those that are, are of a quality shoddy and lacking, with emphasis on ridiculously uninteresting aspects. There is the potential for several crucial and bloody battles, with not a single one dignified by ample description or length.

And the potential this book dashes it utterly colossal. The races are divulged in poor detail, their Religious Beliefs, social-structure and military given but a few morsels of the book. Its the mere fact, that the author has done nothing to improve or add his own twist to the Tolkein-esque theatrics, themes and characters. Its not the sheer unoriginality, nor the utterly dry characters, nor even the rate at which they are killed-off and replaced by equally shallow and ultimately worthless characters destined for an axe in some way. With some variable to ignite the plot, whether it be the quest based upon an archaic artifact, or the more cliched beginnings to ''Heroic Quests'', you at first believe this to be one of the better gene-copies of the sentinels of Our Genre. However, basing a story from such mighty foundations, you couldn`t go far wrong, could you? Your characters should be rich in personnality, emotionally deep and the epitome of their culture or race. The framework of the Characters seem stripped from those of The Lord of the Rings, without the piercing seriousness of the Silmarilion, or the contemptous, child-like nature of The Hobbit. Your traditional Tolkien-esque yarn, with characters not cliched, but certainly typical of the more traditional-beginning`s of the Fantasy genre. In an unorthodox move by myself, I will give The War of the Dwarves a short-review in comparisson to other fiction I have rated, which frankly is all it is worthy of.

The dwarves books in order