More books like this?
I'm afraid it's the only one of its kind. Countless have tried to imitate it, but all of them have failed
Sanderson will finish the Tolkienverse after he has completed Game Of Thrones.
Check out C.S Lewis
>>24682876there is honestly nothing like it
Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword
>>24682876CS Lewis comes close but nothing will ever top it.Tolkien was a fucking visionary
All of fantasy is just an attempt to break into the Shire after midnight.
Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith are the goats of fantasy, they were short story writers but I would go there and avoid modern fluff
>>24682876Overrated by retarded pseudos. Robert E. Howard's works are 10x better.
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>>24683487haha
>>24682876OP, the wise fisherman knows that good bait is only ever as clever as the fish.
>>24682876tolkien has written scads of books tgat take place in that same world and he was drawing on lots of old european texts like beowuld and the nibelungenlied.
Most overrated book in the canon
There's nothing similar but you ought to read The Silmarillion and then move onto Old Norse literature
>>24683080CAS's writing ability and prose is leaps above every other author in the genre. Wolfe is close though.
>>24682876Book of the New Sun
>>24683080lord dunce is unreadable garbage
>>24682876what fantasy books should I read after Tolkien's?I didn't think LoTR was THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME but it is unique and really funjumped into asoiaf recently after The Hedge knight and I gotta say.. it's not that fun.. cliffhanging and exciting but not my cup of tea.and I feel like modern fantasy writers would be "too modest" for my taste
>>24682876Did you like the Appendices? Yes? Well, then The Silmarillion, obviously.
>>24682890>I'm afraid it's the only one of its kind. Countless have tried to imitate it, but all of them have failedWhat about the Shannarra trilogy. I liked LOTR, and I liked this too. The author even says he's paying homage to tolkein, straight out. I liked the character SteeJans. I almost got a vanity license plate that read SteeJan (7 letters only, lol)
