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can /lit/ please recommend some High Fantasy?

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The cover to an omnibus of Zelanzys Amber series

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I have read the following /lit/:
The King of Elflands Daughter - Lord Dunsany
The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
The Emperor of Dreams - Clark Ashton Smith
Conan the Barbarian - Robert E. Howard
The Mabinogin - Evangeline Walton
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser - Fritz Leiber
Jirel of Joiry - C.L. Moore
The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
The Broken Sword, Three Hearts and Three Lions - Poul Anderson
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Lord of Light, Amber - Roger Zelazny
Viriconium - M. John Harrison
The Drawing of the Dark, Anubis Gates, Declare - Tim Powers
BotNS, Latro, Wizard Knight - Meme Wolfe
Little Big - John Crowley
Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

I've also read but did not like: The Well of the Unicorn, LotR, Elric, Thomas Covenant

What are some works you would recommend?

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Who treads those level lands of gold,
The level fields of mist and air,
And rolling mountains manifold
And towers of twilight over there?
No mortal foot upon them strays,
No archer in the towers dwells,
But feet too airy for our ways
Go up and down their hills and dells.
The people out of old romance,
And people that have never been,
And those that on the border dance
Between old history and between
Resounding fable, as the king
Who held his court at Camelot.
There Guinevere is wandering
And there the knight Sir Lancelot.
And by yon precipice of white,
As steep as Roncesvalles, and more,
Within an inch of fancy's sight,
Roland the peerless rides to war.
And just the tip of Quixote's spear,
The greatest of them all by far,
Is surely visible from here!
But no: it is the Evening Star.

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Non-Tolkien Fantasy
The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison 1922
The King of Elflands Daughter - Lord Dunsany (srsly the man was a Baron) 1924
Conan the Barbarian - Robert E. Howard 1932
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser - Fritz Leiber 1934
Jirel of Joiry - C.L. Moore 1934
The Mabinogion - Evangeline Walton 1936
The Broken Sword & Three Hearts and Three Lions - Poul Anderson 1950 & 1955
The Dying Earth - Jack Vance 1950
>all the key works that have greatly influenced and shaped fantasy fiction, dungeons and dragons, and the general perception of fantasy were written BEFORE LotR and mostly by Americans too lel
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin 1968
Amber series - Roger Zelazny 1970
Viriconium - M. John Harrison 1971
The Drawing of the Dark, The Anubis Gates, Declare - Tim Powers 1979, 1983, 2001
Little, Big - John Crowley 1981
Memes - Gene Wolfe, 1980s
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley 1983 (to the best of my knowledge everything else she ever did was shlocky Baen-tier crap its weird how really good and literate this is)

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