History Main / ElvesVersusDwarves

-->'''Gimli''': "It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned."
-->'''Legolas''': "I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves."

-->'''Zevran:''' Hello, my stocky little friend!
-->'''Oghren:''' Huh. You got small breasts for a gal.

** It's possible that the Elves actually ''want'' Dwarves to annoy them, since that's when they bring their best trade goods. Fortresses that the Elves are happy with get nothing but stacks of cheap cloth.

* In ''DwarfFortress'', the Elves are not antagonistic, but they are condescending and snotty, and will refuse to trade if you accidentally offer them wood or wood byproducts. The latest versions have turned their ability to besiege you back on. Disrespect the local trees or offend their merchants and diplomats, and they send armies rather than trade caravans. The creator of Dwarf Fortress is transitioning from species-based hate to belief-based hate, with the result that ''everyone'' now hates elves for their habit of snacking on corpses. Yes, [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the goblins who are basically the jerks of the game]].

** The fantasy/ersatz-Napoleonic wargame ''[[http://flintloque.com/Flintloque.htm Flintloque]]'' exploits this by having the Elves be the French ("Ferach") army, though they've made the British Orcs ("of Albion").
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* Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' has a rivalry similar to this between the Dwarfs and the Trolls, extrapolated on most in ''Thud''.

* ''Scribblenauts'' has a classic example. While an ordinary "[[ChristmasElves Elf]]" is no trouble, try putting a "Wood Elf" and a "Dwarf" next to each other. [[spoiler:If both unarmed, the dwarf panics and is slain by the elf. If both equally armed, the dwarf will defeat the wood elf.]]

*** The difference between how Elves and Dwarves interact comes down to the divisions between the Elves themselves. The people of Rivendell are mostly Noldorin Elves, who were traditionally friendly with the Dwarves (primarily due to their shared love of craftwork). The people of Mirkwood and Lothlorien are mostly Silvan Elves, descendents of the Sindarin Elves who inhabited Doriath. Even before the war between the Dwarves and Sindar, there were disagreements due to their different attitudes towards woodlands (as well as how the Sindar initially assumed that Dwarves were mindless animals and hunted them for sport).

** Culminates in a rather interesting conversation between Loghaire Thunder Stone (king of the dwarves) and Z'an Al'urin (a TrueNeutral Dark Elf), which humbles Loghaire but-quick.

*** The difference between how Elves and Dwarves interact comes down to the divisions between the Elves themselves. The people of Rivendell are mostly Noldorin Elves, who were traditionally friendly with the Dwarves (primarily due to their shared love of craftwork). The people of Mirkwood and Lothlorien are mostly Silvan Elves, descendents of the Sindarin Elves who inhabited Doriath. Even before the war between the Dwarves and Sindar, their were disagreements due to their different attitudes towards woodlands (as well as how the Sindar initially assumed that Dwarves were mindless animals and hunted them for sport).

* Averted in [[WorldOfWarcraft World of Warcraft]], at least in the original game, where playable night elves and dwarves are both members of the [[TheAlliance Alliance]]. As of the ''Burning Crusade'' expansion, however, this trope has been played straight with the introduction of the playable Horde-aligned blood elves, in opposition to the Alliance-loyal [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]].

-->'''Oghren:''' [[SubvertedTrope Nahhh.]]

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* Subverted in Terry Brooks' {{Shannara}} series, where of the [[FiveRaces five major races]], Elves and Dwarves are the two that get along the best with each other.