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* Subversion of this in R.A. Salvatore's ''[[The Cleric Quintet]]'' and some of his later Drizzt novels, which feature Pikel, a rather eccentric dwarf (he dyes his beard bright ''green'') whose ambition in life is to become a druid (to the sheer horror of both the elven monks he goes to for training and his brother Ivan, who is the epitome of everything blunt, earthy, and dwarvish). However, Pikel's affinity for nature and his druidic abilities eventually end up creating quite a rapport between certain dwarven and elven settlements.
* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld/Soul Music|Soul Music]]'', Glod the Dwarf acts a bit hostile to Imp at first when he thinks he might be elvish.
** Also in ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'', it is mentioned that dwarves and trolls would kill an elf on sight, but [[The Fair Folk|for a good reason]]. This particular example is less "Elves Versus Dwarves" and more "Elves Versus ''everybody''".
** Dwarves and trolls are hereditary enemies. Dwarves mine, which involves smashing rocks to get valuable minerals out of them, and trolls are basically animate rocks with valuable minerals in. This despite the fact that ''both'' races are Stout.
* This runs all through the ''[[Green-Sky Trilogy]]'', despite the fact that the Kindar (willowy, overly-diplomatic, tree-dwelling [[Veganopia|vegetarians]]) and Erdlings (stocky, plain-spoken, underground-dwelling hunters) are simply two separate human cultures.
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