I’ve been a huge fan of the movies since they first came out but didn’t read the books until the beginning of this year. I just wasn’t a reader until recently. I’ve been yearning for some more fantasy but haven’t been able to find anything similar. I tried The Silmarillion but it reads too much like a textbook to me.
What are some other great fantasy books that I might like?
The Dragon Lance series?
Second recommendation for the Dragonlance series. They were a DnD campaign turned into a trilogy IIRC, and are very enjoyable to read. I must have reread the original trilogy (dragons of autumn, winter, and spring) a good dozen times over the years.
I’d start with the first trilogy by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman and go from there. The expanded universe has some great novels but some so-so ones as well.
Have you tried wheel of time?
That series has been on my radar, but I’ve been weary because I’ve heard that there’s a big lull in the middle 5 books or so.
Fair point, but I would say the first 4 books are an equivalent load to LOTR and worth the time.
The first 3 books of A Song of Ice & Fire.
By the time he gets to book 4/5 it’s all starting to get a little out of hand for poor George.
The Ea-Cycle series by David Zindell.
It’s a little different in style, but my all-time favorite series is the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix. (Lord of the Rings is a close second). It’s a series with extremely well-written female protagonists with a very interesting and detailed magic system, and the protagonists are a family lineage of anti-necromancers.
I love these two series enough that I have a tattoo of a quote from the Old Kingdom series written in Quenya. (I did a phonetic translation due to the lack of appropriate vocabulary in the conlang, but the calligraphy is correct.)
