/lit/ - Literature

I don’t know but I’m pretty disappointed in fantasy so far.
Wolfe and Vance are good, Tolkien is alright, Gaiman comes somewhat close I guess but it’s like he doesn’t dare to go into the deep. If I had read more I could probably mention more.
So much of fantasy in my mind is either just a Tolkien rip off or some generic world with glimpses of dream elements like asoiaf and whatever else surrounded in boring elements. Considering these are books, I expected people putting the most amazing things on paper but so much of it is generic or some boring, ego? fest around modern identity or some soulless isekai story. I’m not sure what to call it. And I don’t understand what people see in some of these known fantasy stories reading 1000 pages of another asoiaf or Sanderson book. Filling their book shelves with works like them.
Hell reflecting on this I’d actually put Harry Potter somewhat high, even if it’s a nonsensical and inconsistent kids story, Rowling at least uses her imagination a lot and adds a lot of fun elements.
I see people online obsess over magic systems? Cardboard characters and super generic world building around the complexity of the goblin caves economic system or something.
Sorry for the rant, I just want to know if I was simply filtered or not.
I wanted stuff like pic related, what I got was a jumping human with long ears killing everyone with a knife as they battle the evil king of evil with half the book fleshing out the fantasy monster cooking system of the story because the human was once a chef at an inn where he met the most wonderful girl but actually the girl is the evil king and he also plays the flute and there are goblins but in this story they are good. Why?