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[[folder:Literature]]
->Dwarves and mountains have one thing in common: It takes an almighty hammer and a tremendous amount of persistence to overcome them.
-->-- ''Literature/TheDwarves''

->On the Nature of Dwarves.\\
Commonly found in gloomy mountain caverns, these dimunitive creatures will fell an [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcus Gigantus]] with a single blow of their deadly axes, for no weapon in Girdlegard can match the finely fashioned ax of the dwarves. Afterward, they will drink beer by the barrelful without discernible effect. Such is the resilience of the dwarven female...
-->-- ''[[Literature/TheDwarves The War of the Dwarves]]''

->Now and then you hear malicious remarks about dwarves. They are said to be of inferior build, to be cranky, to have a weird sense of humor; it is told that they only drink beer that is as black as night and are not able to appreciate music unless a hundred voices are bellowing in unison. But I say: only when you have been a guest in their majestic halls, as I once was, should you have the right to pronounce on these rumors and confirm them all to be true.\\
Let us not laugh at them as if they were lovable children with long beards, but, on the contrary, let us praise the magnificent way they have preserved all of us from total destruction. More than once.
-->-- '''The Fabulous Rodario''', ''[[Literature/TheDwarves The Revenge of the Dwarves]]''

->Ih did aforetimes ask a dwerff as what, other than such dwerff, he fain had byn born. Ih offert the chois of myghtie draggon, all seeing magus or his own god vraccas. He did look at me in wonder and did shayk his hed, saying: ye mightie draggons were perforce slain by a dwerff, syns draggons are no more; ye all seeing magus lykewyse was vanquysht by a dwerff, syns he is no more. And vraccas neyther schal ih be, for ther be no thing left to mak, better than his dwerffis.[[labelnote:Translation]]I once asked a dwarf as what, other than a dwarf, he wished to have been born. I offered the choice of [[OurDragonsAreDifferent a mighty dragon]], [[WizardClassic an all-seeing Magus]] or [[UltimateBlacksmith his own god Vraccas]]. He looked at me in wonder and shook his head, saying: "The mighty dragon was already slain by a dwarf, since dragons are no more; the all-seeing Magus likewise was vanquished by a dwarf, since he is no more. And Vraccas neither shall I be, [[HaveIMentionedIAmADwarfToday for there is no thing left to make better than his dwarves]]."[[/labelnote]]
-->-- Excerpt from [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe "Descryptions of ye Ffolk of Girdlegyrd: Manneris and Karacterystycs"]], ''[[Literature/TheDwarves The Revenge of the Dwarves]]''

->"It's a bit stereotypical, isn't it?" said the dwarf. "I mean, it's a bit dwarfs = miners. I don't see why we have to be type-cast like this all the time."\\
"But most dwarfs ''are'' miners," said Soll desperately.\\
"Well, OK, but they're not happy about it," said another dwarf.
-->-- ''Literature/MovingPicturesDiscworld''

->''The dwarves of yore made mighty spells''\\
''Where hammers fell like ringing bells''\\
''In places deep, where dark things sleep,''\\
''In hallowed halls beneath the fells.''
-->-- The dwarves' folk song from ''Literature/TheHobbit''

->'''DWARFS''' are short, muscular, bearded PEOPLE much given to mining and forging. They mostly live hidden inside hills, where they do their mining. Until recently, almost no female Dwarfs had been sighted, but now they are seen quite often. They do not always have beards, but seem to be squat like the males. All Dwarfs, perhaps through living so long immured in DWARVEN FASTNESSES, have a very old-fashioned, surly demeanour. They bow a lot, but also grumble. They recite long epics about the marvellous deeds of their ancestors. The advantage of their old-fashioned ways, however, is that they are very honourable and always keep their word once they have been induced to give it. They will join the forces of GOOD and supply ARMOUR, but before this the Tour may well have a difficult time with them. Dwarfs will take all Tourists prisoner for trespassing in their Fastness, and it will involve much persuasive talking to get them to be friendly.
-->--''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland''
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[[folder:Music]]
->''Brothers of the mine rejoice!\\
(Swing, swing, swing with me!)\\
Raise your pick and raise your voice!\\
(Sing, sing, sing with me!)\\
Down and down into the deep,\\
Who knows what we'll find beneath?\\
Diamonds, rubies, gold, and more,\\
Hidden in the mountains store.\\\
Born underground,\\
Suckled from a teat of stone,\\
Raised in the dark,\\
The safety of our mountain home;\\
Skin made of iron,\\
Steel in our bones,\\
To dig and dig makes us free,\\
Come on, brothers, sing with me!\\\
I am a dwarf, and I'm digging a hole,\\
Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole.\\
I am a dwarf, and I'm digging a hole,\\
Diggy diggy hole, digging a hole!''
-->--"Diggy Diggy Hole", by LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
->Dwarves are one of the easiest races in ''D&D'' to roleplay. They have well-defined personalities, and it's easy to imagine a dwarf character in your mind as you play. Everybody knows how dwarves are supposed to look and act. Accordingly, making a dwarf character is often a matter of deciding how much you want to play against type. You can be a doughty dwarf fighter, a sneaky dwarf archer/rogue, or even the vanishingly rare dwarf sorcerer.
-->-- ''Races of Stone'', a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement that discusses dwarves in depth.

->Dwarves are creatures of stone, and like stone they change only in response to extremes. The dwarves of the many worlds have much in common, but never allow those similarities to blind you to their unique traits.
-->-- '''Mordenkainen''', ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes]]''

->When I were but a lad, my father, the King, taught me three things:\\
[[ElvesVersusDwarves Never accept a gift from an Elf.]]\\
[[AllThatGlitters Never trust gold that glistens in darkness.]]\\
[[RevengeBeforeReason Never forget a grudge.]]\\
On his deathbed I swore to uphold these values to me own dying day, and Grungni willing I will.
-->-- '''King Alrik Ranulfsson''' of Karak Hirn, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->Wow, a dwarf that smells like a brewery! [[SarcasmMode You never see that ANYWHERE.]]
-->-- '''Anders''', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening''

->'''Bodhan:''' I've been looking everywhere for you, Messere. If only you humans didn't all look the same.\\
'''Hawke:''' We can't all be short and bearded like your people, Bodhan.\\
'''Bodhan:''' Indeed. It's quite a shame, really...
-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''

->Ideally humans will end up with enough parameters to end up like various different civilizations, and the other civilizations will probably become more alien to humans as humans take up more of the slack. Dwarves are an exception to that since they should keep some familiarity to be easily playable, and they should continue to exemplify the highs and lows of human craft and inebriation.
-->-- ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' creator '''Toady One''', explicitly indicating how and why his dwarves will exemplify this trope.

->A Dwemer of eight can create a golem, but an eight of Dwemer can become one.[[note]]Translation: "A Dwemer child of eight can create a golem, but only a truly great warrior and armorer can masquerade as one."[[/note]]
-->-- ''[[Literature/TheElderScrollsInUniverseBooks Ancient Tales of the Dwemer, Part VI: Chimarvamidium]]''

->When the Chimer first abandoned the herds and tents of their nomadic ancestors, and built the first Great Houses, we loved the Daedra, and worshipped them as gods. But our brethren, the Dwemer, scorned the Daedra, and mocked our foolish rituals, and preferred instead their gods of Reason and Logic. [[ElvesVersusDwarves So the Chimer and Dwemer were always at bitter war]], until the Nords came and invaded Resdayn. [[EnemyMine Only then did the Chimer and Dwemer put away their strife and join together to cast out the invaders.]]
-->-- '''[[PhysicalGod Vivec]]''', ''The Battle of Red Mountain, and the Rise and Fall of the Tribunal'', ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

->That's why the Dwemer are the weirdest race in Tamriel and, frankly, also the scariest. They look(ed) like us, they sometimes act(ed) like us, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality but when you really put them under the magnifying glass you see nothing but vessels that house an intelligence and value system that is by all accounts Beyond Human Comprehension.]] [...] There isn't even a word to describe the Dwarven view on divinity. [[FlatEarthAtheist They were atheists on a world where gods exist.]]
-->--'''Michael Kirkbride''' on ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''' Dwemer

->Now Dwarves, Sire, are like angry beards on legs. Angry, beer-soaked beards on legs.
-->-- '''Gnarl''', ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}''

->'''PlayerCharacter:''' I thought Dwarves were short with long braided beards.\\
'''Zaid:''' What? That's just an old stereotype! Most dwarves are normal height and prefer not to have ridiculous facial hair.
-->-- ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3''

->Mining is hard work. Good thing we're dwarves!
-->--'''All of the Dwarf Player Characters''', ''Videogame/DeepRockGalactic''

->The old rhymes\\
They‘re on my mind\\
\\
We‘re one tribe\\
We share our memories\\
Clear and bright\\
We walk as one\\
Our lines are bound together\\
We share fate\\
We share one fate\\
We share fate\\
\\
Voices calling, I‘m the one\\
A glorious vision\\
What may come\\
\\
Now let our axes sing an anthem\\
The glory of all dwarves\\
\\
Protector of the free lands\\
We redeem our mission\\
We‘re brothers, one by one\\
Divine Smith‘s valiant sons\\
By Vraccas\\
It‘s our destiny\\
\\
We are the chosen\\
We are the children\\
We are forged in fire\\
And made of stone\\
\\
We are the guardians of the realm\\
From the beginning till the end\\
We will praise the Divine\\
Who will last till eternity\\
\\
Forged in fire we were born\\
We‘re made of stone\\
By Old father‘s hand\\
Gave life to us, and more\\
Then from father to son\\
He made us dwarves \\
The guardians of the lands\\
Still we carry on\\
Stand side by side\\
We will defeat the fiercest enemy\\
\\
We are the chosen\\
We are the children\\
We are forged in fire and made of stone\\
We are the guardians of the realm\\
From the beginning till the end\\
We will praise the Divine\\
He will last till eternity\\
\\
We are the chosen\\
We are the children\\
We are forged in fire and made of stone\\
We are the guardians of the realm\\
From the beginning till the end\\
We will praise the Divine\\
The old smith\\
We‘ll be thine\\
\\
We are the chosen\\
We are the chosen ones\\
We are the children\\
\\
We‘re the children \\
We are born to be\\
The guardians of the realm\\
\\
We‘re the children \\
We are born to be\\
The eternal guardians of the land
-->-- ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5X7MXfLxEg Children of the Smith]]'', the video game adaptation of ''Literature/TheDwarves''

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[[folder:Web Comics]]
->'''Gimli''': Think about it. What is the defining characteristic of dwarves.\\
'''Aragorn''': [[DumpStat Low charisma?]]\\
'''Gimli''': I mean besides that.\\
'''Legolas''': [[GirlsWithMoustaches Bearded women?]]\\
'''Gimli''': Not that either.\\
'''The GM''': [[TheAlcoholic Rampant alcoholism?]]\\
'''Gimli''': No! Well, maybe a bit. I'm talking about the fact that [[CharacterAlignment dwarves are lawful!]]
-->-- ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings''

->'''Cleric:''' Does he have any distinguishing features?\\
'''Haley:''' Well... he's short.\\
'''Celia:''' He has a beard.\\
'''Haley:''' He wears heavy armor.\\
'''Cleric:''' Ummm, OK... how about any unusual personality traits?\\
'''Haley:''' He likes beer.\\
'''Celia:''' He has an accent.\\
'''Haley:''' He worships Thor.\\
'''Celia:''' And hates trees!\\
'''Cleric:''' Can you tell me anything about him that differentiates him from every other dwarf?
-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0602.html strip 602]]

->I'm a dwarf!
-->-- '''[[TheDitz Skull]]''', providing his new ''D&D'' character's ''entire backstory'' in ''Webcomic/PvP''
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[[folder:Web Original]]
->Dwarves typically consist of seventeen main organs: the beard, the boozehole, the gratuitous Scottish accent, 13 livers and an axe.
-->-- [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Dwarves 1d4chan]]

->Moreover, much like his elves, they aren't very distinct characters. Someone's said once that there are no dwarves in fantasy, just one dwarf copy and pasted all over with a few details changed, and in no other fantasy fiction I've seen truer evidence of this.
-->-- [[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6440&whichpage=8#128459 from Candlekeep forums]], on Creator/RASalvatore's dwarves

->Born underground, grown inside a rocky womb\\
The earth is our cradle; the mountain shall become our tomb\\
[[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Face us on the battlefield,]] [[BadassBoast you will meet your doom]]\\
We do not fear what lies beneath\\
[[DefiedTrope We can never]] [[DugTooDeep dig too deep!]]\\
\\
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole\\
Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole\\
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole\\
Diggy diggy hole, digging a hole...
-->-- The {{LetsPlay/Yogscast}}, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWz0qVvBZ0 Diggy Diggy Hole]]"

->Alright, listen to me, you knife-eared piece of shit! If you go any further with that piss-stained pubic hair you call a wig, I'm gonna wreck your shit so hard that you won't even be able to walk with your limp dick! I'm gonna shove my foot so far up your shaven perfect little ass that your breath is gonna smell like shoe polish! Then I'm gonna take that little red anal bead on your belt, and push it in your face! I'm gonna flagellate you with my fucking beard! I'm gonna build you a pair of runic mechanical balls, and use surgical precision to sew them to your groin where your manhood ought to be just so that I can kick them with my iron fucking feet, you TWAT!
-->-- '''Urist''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azOvRwrqz2M Warhammer: Ravandil's Quest]]''
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