Well, if you want to have some fun John Connolly's "The Book of Lost Things" is wicked fun...
Speaking of that, how about Gregory Maguire's "Wicked"? He's got a sequel, the brilliantly-titled "Son of a Witch." And a thid book is in the wings, I believe.
After Tolkien, a lot of the writers I read were very playful. There is still that sense of wonder, but it's also undercut with Age of Irony mirthfulness. And if you dig deeper than the mirth, you find more sadness underneath.
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~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~
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