SOLVED. NOT the Hobbit, but Hobbit-like outcasts hear a "tap tap tap" in the mountain from enemies on the other side... [s]

[M]

I read this book in high school in 1986. Fantasy, Hobbit-like book. It had to do with two friends in a village where they were the outcasts for being different... they didn't conform to what the other Hobbit-like people were supposed to act like. One had a green door and one had a crimson door.
The villagers or main characters begin to hear the "tap tap tap" of their enemies chipping their way through the mountain, closer to the protected valley where the village rests.
Somehow the outcast friends have to go on a mission of some sort to get help before the "bad guys" have tapped their way through the mountain.
Hope you can help! :)

[Lsophia]

The most derivative hobbit-like heroes that I can think of come from Dennis L. McKiernan's books.

The ones I read back in the day features hobbit-like creatures known as Werrows. The books included:

The Dark Tide
Shadows of Doom
The Darkest Day

Trek to Kraggen-Cor
The Brega Path


Good luck!

[Sue]

The Gammage Cup (Tales of the Minnipins)?

[Kris]

The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall for Sue's suggestion.

[M]

Sue and Kris... you are both MY HEROES! I have been looking for this book for YEARS and have asked independent book sellers, and other book geeks like myself... I can now read this book to my son. I hope he loved it like I did!
Thank you!!!!
Meredith

[M]

Lsophia... thank you for your quick reply. It ended up being answered by Kris and Sue... The Gammage Cup!
But thank you!!


Lsophia wrote: "The most derivative hobbit-like heroes that I can think of come from Dennis L. McKiernan's books.

The ones I read back in the day features hobbit-like creatures known as Werrows. ..."

Lsophia wrote: "The most derivative hobbit-like heroes that I can think of come from Dennis L. McKiernan's books.

The ones I read back in the day features hobbit-like creatures known as Werrows. ..."

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[M]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU KRIS & SUE!!
MY HEROES!!

Kris wrote: "The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall for Sue's suggestion."

[M]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU KRIS & SUE!!
MY HEROES!!


Sue wrote: "The Gammage Cup (Tales of the Minnipins)?"

[Kris]

Good find, Sue. (I'm just the "linker". :)