Other Books

[Amandil]

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Re: Other Books

No one comes close to Tolkien, but occasionally you have to read something else.

To restrict it to a few in the Fantasy genre, I guess some of my other favorites would be:
Robert Zelazny (for his short stories and his Amber series)
Robert Aspirin (for the Myth Adventures series)
Steven Brust for the Jhereg books starring Vlad Taltos
Michael Moorcock for all of his Eternal Warrior series
Mercedes Lackey for her Valdemar books and her Bardic Circle
Tad Williams for his Memory, Sorrow &amp; Thorn trilogy
Terry Gooodkind, mainly because it is the only other epic fantasy author that my wife adores
Ursula K.LeGuin for the EarthSea trilogy
Fritz Leiber for the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser books
Melanie Rawn for her Dragon Prince books.
C.S.Lewis' Narnia books
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books
L. Frank Baums Oz books
The Robert Jordan Wheel of Time series for another friend
Elizabeth Moon for the Deed of Paksenarrion, and....... don't get me started!!!
This will make me want to go back and read some of these when I should be buckling down and rereading the Silmarillion for the zillionth time or laboriously work my way through HoME again, hoping to glean a few more gems.
I just moved into a new townhouse and haven't finished unpacking. I didn't realize I had 11 bookcases of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Between that and all my old comics my house would burn for weeks if it ever caught fire!!

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