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	Minor Discworld concepts - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The inhospitable Koom Valley was home to an ancient battle between dwarfs and trolls that both species came to use as an excuse for their mutual enmity.
		This is in part due to the battle being a convenient patch for rips in time often used by the History Monks, although the History of Thud suggests that something about the valley itself encourages violence (this might be related to the Summoning Dark).
		It was a Cube, perpetually replaying sounds from the Battle of Koom Valley, that drove the painter Methodia Rascal insane during the painting of his life's work: The Battle of Koom Valley.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Knurd (4383 words)

	Amazon.de: Thud! (Discworld): English Books: Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As the anniversary of the battle approaches, ancient politics and the present-day murder cause tensions between the trolls and dwarfs to boil.
		Though Koom Valley was a disaster for both sides, certain community leaders from each side have been spoiling for a rematch—something Vimes is duty-bound to prevent.
		Vimes has a lot on his plate, anyway, what with the upcoming anniversary of Koom Valley (a battle between trolls and dwarves that is part of an age-old war), an unsolved murder that reveals the limitations of the Watch in dwarfish eyes, and the theft of a valuable painting from the Royal Art Museum.
	www.amazon.de /Thud-Terry-Pratchett/dp/product-description/0385608675 (686 words)

	Thud!
		In this installment, Commander Sam Vimes--a copper's copper--must deal with dwarfs and trolls as the anniversary of the battle of Koom Valley, a long-ago fight between trolls and dwarfs, draws near.
		Although the reason for the battle is lost to history, ancient politics and what appears to be the murder of a dwarf official by a troll cause tensions between the two races to escalate.
		If Sam and crew cannot solve the mystery in time, the battle of Koom Valley could be reÂenacted on the streets of Ankh-Morpork.
	www.booksmatter.com /b0060823453.htm (177 words)

	Minor Discworld concepts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boffo is described by Pratchett as "the power of expectations"; the strength one gains from behaving exactly as someone expects you to.
		This, combined with their complete autonomy without fuel and the use of a series of gear speed/torque gears allows them to power the mechanics and industries of entire dwarf cities, including tow-powered traffic.
		The Patrician Lord Vetinari was gifted an Axle by the dwarf Low King under Überwald Rhys Rhysson for Ankh-Morpork's part in the resolution of the Koom Valley dispute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minor_Discworld_concepts (4071 words)

	Trolls - Discworld & Pratchett Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is very likely the initial cause of the animosity between trolls and dwarfs, even though, after hundreds of years, the feud goes on because it is a cultural tradition for both species.
		It being a cultural tradition does not mean it is nice; trolls and dwarfs have repeated the Battle of Koom Valley several times, each side springing an ambush on the other, casualties are high.
		The hostility lives on and is found in any place with a significant number of both species, for example, Ankh-Morpork; a serious riot has occurred in Men at Arms.
	wiki.affordable-prawns.co.uk /index.php/Trolls (560 words)

	Reader's Club: Email Review
		The Battle of Koom Valley the defining moment in Dwarf/Troll relations on the Discworld, a flat word that sits atop a giant turtle.
		Dwarves and Trolls both repeat the refrain “remember Koom Valley” as a reason for their hostility to the other.
		It’s a week from the anniversary of the battle, tensions between dwarf and troll are running higher than ever, and a firebrand dwarf preacher just got himself killed.
	www.readersclub.org /emailReview.asp?id=3034 (122 words)

	THUD is a game of Strategy based on Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD novels
		Long ago, somewhere in the Koom Valley a battle was fought between the Dwarfs and the Trolls.
		As most battles go it was bloody, confused and started more than it finished.
		Based loosely on the epic Battle of Koom Valley between the Dwarfs and the Trolls each player takes turns to play the fast moving Dwarfs as they attempt to trap Trolls in a carefully prepared ambush.
	www.pixelpark.co.nz /mind_games/thud.htm (293 words)

	Alternative Worlds » 2005 » August
		Millennium ago, a battle was fought at Koom Valley between the trolls and the dwarves.
		On the anniversary of the Battle of Koom Valley trolls and dwarves from all over Discworld pour into the city of Ankh-Morpork bringing tensions to an all time.
		Commander Sam Vimes is afraid that the Battle of Koom Valley will be repeated in his city especially with the dwarf Grog Horncrusher advocating troll-genocide.
	www.alternative-worlds.com /2005/08/page/5 (2640 words)

	Games - Thud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The two sides are dwarfs and trolls, the game representing the famous Battle of Koom Valley.
		The battle is over when both players agree that no more captures can be made by continuing to play.
		The players should then swap sides to play another round, and the sum of their scores for the two battles determines the final victor.
	listing-index.ebay.com /games/Thud.html (829 words)

	Strange Horizons Reviews: Thud! by Terry Pratchett, reviewed by Juliana Froggatt
		The enmity between the first two groups goes back thousands of years to the Battle of Koom Valley, at which, it is said, both sides were ambushed.
		On the anniversary of the battle, tensions are mounting in the city, leading to the death of dwarf demagogue Grag Hamcrusher.
		As if that weren’t enough, a centuries-old, 60-foot-long painting of the battle has been stolen, there’s a vampire on the Watch who’s making Lance Corporal Angua worry about losing her boyfriend (Captain Carrot, also a Watchman), and Vimes has to be home every day promptly at 6 p.m.
	www.strangehorizons.com /reviews/2005/12/thud_by_terry_p.shtml (1223 words)

	Thud! - The First Discworld Boardgame. Koom Valley happens here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Thud is unusual in that a game consists of two battles - if you command the dwarfs in the first battle then you'll be in charge of the trolls in the second.
		At the end of each battle, points are scored by the winning player and the result of the game is decided by combining the results of both battles.
		This causes the troll to lose interest in proceedings and it leaves the arena for a long lie-down until the next battle.
	game.thudguild.com /rules.html (441 words)

	Amazon.ca: Thud!: Books: Terry Pratchett,Stephen Briggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Whisper the words Koom Valley and see the average Watch Officer pale as they recollect the bloody battle between trolls and dwarfs.
		Although details of the battle are obscure and lost in the mists of time the animosity between the parties has lingered.
		The origin and outcome of the ancient Battle of Koom Valley between the Trolls and Dwarves has been obscured and the subject of much debate; but, the lingering and long-lasting hatred between them means they are always one spark away from renewed battle.
	www.amazon.ca /Thud-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0753134268 (2552 words)

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		As ethnic tensions between Ankh-Morpork's troll and dwarf communities mount in the buildup to the anniversary of the Battle of Koom Valley, Lord Vetinari convinces Commander Vimes to interview a vampire applicant to the Watch.
		Meanwhile, Nobbs and Colon begin an investigation into the theft of the fifty-foot painting The Battle of Koom Valley by the supposedly-insane artist Methodia Rascal from a city museum.
		Another is the game "Thud", which first appeared in Going Postal; the game, which is a symbolic replication of the Battle of Koom Valley, requires the player to learn to think as both sides.
	www.nobeltrader.com /thud.htm (437 words)

	Review
		Their leaders, who never see the light of day, are stoking the fires of dwarf anger as the anniversary of Koom Valley approaches.
		It doesn't help that an enormous painting of the Battle of Koom Valley, the work of a demented artist with a peculiar persecution complex, has been stolen.
		The trail of deception and murder leads inexorably to Koom Valley.
	sfrevu.com /Review-id.php?id=3089 (721 words)

	Powell's Books - Thud! (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
		But he's dogged and honest and he'll be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always-tentative peace — and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks (or deep beneath them) who's been stirring up big trouble on the eve of the anniversary of one of Discworld's most infamous historical events.
		Centuries earlier, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, a horde of trolls met a division of dwarfs in bloody combat.
		Though Koom Valley was a disaster for both sides, certain community leaders from each side have been spoiling for a rematch — something Vimes is duty-bound to prevent.
	powells.com /biblio?isbn=0060815310 (1069 words)

	Thud! by Terry Pratchett
		Many hundreds, or is it thousands, or years ago the trolls either ambushed the dwarves, or the other way around and the infamous battle of Koom Valley was fought.
		Koom Valley Day is fast approaching, and every troll and dwarf in Ankh-Morpork is up to Something, but what?
		Commander Sam Vimes has to get to the bottom of it (and a very deep bottom it looks to be too) before all-out war is declared.
	www.myshelf.com /scifi_fantasy/05/thud.htm (291 words)

	Amazon.com: "Koom Valley": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		If anyone was going to be using a blade near his face, it was going to be him.
		"Koom Valley, Koom Valley," he muttered to his reflection.
		It's the actual bread he personally wielded at the Battle of Koom Valley,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Koom-Valley (431 words)

	The Digerati Peninsula » Print » Thud!
		Trouble has come to Ankh-Morpork though, and it’s not just the annual re-enactment of the battle of Koom Valley where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs and the dwarfs ambushed the trolls, or so the story goes.
		There are some deep-down dwarfs, hardliners, who are searching for something under Ankh-Morpork’s filthy streets, and are prepared to kill anyone who gets in their way.
		They’ve unlocked an ancient evil, and discovered a secret about the battle at Koom Valley, a secret they’re desperate to keep hidden.
	www.thedigeratipeninsula.org.uk /archive/2006/09/30/thud/print (433 words)

	The Games Store - Over 20 Years of Serving The Gaming Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Based on a battle between Dwarfs and Trolls, players take turns leading each side in an attempt to defeat their opponent, but to win you must utilise very different tactics with each race!
		Koom Valley Thud is a fast paced frantic game which plays in a very different manner to the original game.
		The players re-enact this epic battle on a 165xsquare octagonal shaped board, one player as the Dwarfs and the other as the Trolls.
	www.tgs.co.uk /store/c_viewitem.asp?idproduct=17908 (1164 words)

	Borders - List - Science Fiction & Fantasy
		Anansi Boys finds the mysterious and fantastic in the everyday and ordinary in the story of "Fat Charlie" Nancy, who discovers, upon the death of his estranged father, that many members of his family are human incarnations of Anansi, or African trickster gods.
		The Honor Harrington space opera continues with another melodramatic episode of starlit battles and interstellar war of epic proportions.
		The battle of Koom Valley remains one of history's most notable events for the denizens of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/list.jsp?list=best2005sf (587 words)

	Thud! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The new recruit, 51-year-old Salacia "Sally" von Humpeding, becomes, along with Angua and Carrot, attached to the investigation surrounding Hamcrusher's death.
		Nobbs has a new girlfriend, the exotic dancer Tawneee (pronounced with each 'e' as a separate syllable); Nobby first caught her eye when slipping an IOU into her garter.
		The subplot concerning alleged "hidden messages" in the painting of Koom Valley, and the accompanying conspiracy theory book, The Koom Valley Codex parodies The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thud! (737 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Thud! / Terry Pratchett
		With the annual Koom Valley Day approaching, it's been bad enough that a radical dwarf leader by the name of Hamcrusher has been agitating for open violence.
		When Hamcrusher is murdered, evidently at the hands of a troll (and how could one have gotten into the dwarfs' tunnels under the city in the first place?), all hell seems on the verge of breaking loose.
		When the latter happens in Ankh-Morpork — starting with a deceptively simple murder, and developing into a far-reaching conspiracy involving a legendary battle and dark, mystical forces that seek to perpetuate ancient, atavistic hatreds to their own ends — you can get a good night's sleep knowing that Samuel Vimes is on the job.
	www.sfreviews.net /thud.html (919 words)

	Dwarf bread - TheKolWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The nature of dwarf bread in KoL (hard enough to be used as a weapon) is a reference to the dwarf bread of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
		In the novel Feet of Clay, for example, one B'hrian Bloodaxe is said to have killed 57 trolls with his Battle Bread at the Battle of Koom Valley.
		There are many varieties of dwarf bread with different applications toward the same purpose (drop scones, for instance, can do a good deal of damage dropped off clifftops or battlements).
	kol.coldfront.net /thekolwiki/index.php/Dwarf_bread (172 words)

	Thud! by Terry Pratchett
		Fast approaching is the anniversary of the Battle of Koom Valley, a momentous fight between dwarfs and trolls.
		Not only has he the problem of the up-and-coming re-enactment of Koom Valley, complete with clubs and axes in the centre of his city but he now has to have a vampire on his squad.
		His job is not ideal for keeping the appointment and his staff collude to help him get there on time.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /articles/books/2006/nz9737.php (607 words)

	Litzke.com
		Racial tensions are running high in Ankh-Morpork as trolls and dwarves gear up to celebrate the battle of Koom Valley by slaughtering each other.
		Both books deal with Generation X, but in Shampoo Planet, this is a young Generation X, with a hippie mother and deadbeat dad, neo-hippie siblings, and sci-fi-loving friends, trying to deal with the consumer culture into which they are dropped.
		His girlfriend, Anna-Louise and a self-centered French girl, Stephanie, battle for his affections.
	www.ug.cs.sunysb.edu /~litzker/reviews.html (2483 words)

	The View From The Foothills » Blog Archive » Thud!, by Terry Pratchett
		The dwarfs and trolls first fought the Battle of Koom Valley
		Koom Valley Day is always rather fraught in Ankh-Morpork, thanks to the
		And Koom Valley Day is only a few days away….
	www.foothills.wjduquette.com /blog/archives/1118 (494 words)

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