The Merchant of Valinor by Tehta  

Ampa (Hook)

Another trading opportunity arose in the East. My Lord claimed that he had discovered a whole new race of beings, like and yet unlike ourselves, and I was hooked. Packing only a few essential trading supplies–herbs, beads, and useful metal trinkets–I set out for the camp of his new allies.

And I was met with a huge disappointment, for they were merely the taller, homelier, less intelligent Dwarves I had been trading with for years.