The Dark Tide – Dennis L McKiernan Free Audiobook

Written by Dennis L McKiernan

Tuck Underbank is a Warrow — think a hobbit with shoes and “large
jewel-like
eyes” — living in the peaceful Boskydells. When an unnaturally cold
winter strikes and the evil Modru threatens the world, he and a number
of his fellow Thornwalkers go to the High King’s aid. But a vast expanse
of lightless blizzard called the Dimmendark (sounds bad, doesn’t it?)
is spreading over the land, and Tuck soon finds that the “dark tide”
is going to swamp them all.
Despite the fact that they’re tiny and temperamental, the Warrows get
included in the military forces. But the High King doesn’t have enough
warriors to hold off the horde of slobbering monsters who are coming
to attack. And the battle goes horribly wrong, separating the friends
from one another and possibly dooming them all.