The two of them had forged the iron band together many cycles before. Goda was surprised by her companion’s thoughtful mood. “No more than I thought things in Girdlegard could change like they have,” she replied. “Did you ever think we would spend so long here in the Outer Lands?” he asked her pensively.

No armor could withstand a crow’s beak wielded by a dwarf. He used his twin’s long-handled weapon in honor of his memory: it had a heavy flat hammer head on the one side and a curved spike on the other, the length of your arm. I expect it would be an extermination spell right between the eyes.” He picked up and shouldered his crow’s beak, the one his twin brother Boe¯ndal Hookhand had once carried into battle.

Ireheart’s laugh was short, humorless and harsh.

“Perhaps Lot-Ionan could have given you a better answer.” Over two hundred and fifty cycles of worrying. “I can only repeat what I always say when you ask that, husband: I don’t know.” She didn’t take his unfriendly tone amiss because she knew it stemmed from worrying. It was showing just as much silver now as the beard. Then he adjusted the plait of dark hair that hung down the length of his back. “How do you mean?” he growled, rubbing the shaved sides of his head. Ireheart sighed and nodded to the guards passing on their rounds. “It could give any moment or it could last for many cycles yet.” “I can’t say how much more it can take,” Goda told him quietly, her brows knitted in concern. When that happened you could hear the cracking sound echo from the fortress walls. The project, which Beta is shopping to potential co-production partners at MIPCOM, will be English-language and is initially planned as 10-12 one-hour episodes.But the stone was growing more and more defects each year there would be yet another fissure. They are set in a fantasy world akin to The Lord of the Rings with similar magical creatures such as orcs, trolls, orges and, of course, dwarves.īeta is developing the Dwarves books into a series together with German production company Hoffman & Voges, who originally secured the book rights with an eye to adapting them into TV movies. Heintz's four Dwarves novels have been best-sellers in his native Germany and have moved some 1.5 million copies worldwide. CANNES - German production/sales group Beta Film has secured the rights to Markus Heitz' best-selling fantasy franchise Dwarves with an eye to turning the material into a high-end, one-hour series.īeta has gotten a taste for the one-hour format as the co-producer and world sales agent on Tom Fontana's historic epic Borgia, which Netflix recently picked up for the U.S., and on Fontana's new New York police series Copper, which Cineflix Media is producing together with BBC America.

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