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Are there any fantasy books that aren't just rehash of this?

>> No.10145706

yes

>> No.10145709

Gormenghast. Stay clear of the third book.

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>>10145701
Yes. Most fantasy books aren't a rehash of that.

gawsh r u flippin srs rn

>> No.10145715

no

>> No.10145722

Why it was so influential?

>> No.10145734

>>10145701
You mean Das ring des nibelungen

>> No.10145796

The Hobbit
Chronicles of Narnia
fantasy novels written before LOTR
plenty of novels written after it (His Dark Materials, Phantom Tollbooth, Gene Wolfe's novels etc)
and that's not counting magical realism and various ancient and medieval mythological tales

>> No.10145920

>>10145701
Eragon.

>> No.10145924

>>10145709
On the contrary, read the third book

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10145945

The Worm Ouroboros, you BITCH

>>10145722

On top of Tolkien's general brilliance at evoking atmosphere and historical depth, it spoke sharply against modernity and prevailing post-war ways of thinking at a time and was "discovered" in the US at a time when such critique was just beginning to become a major popular cause. Also at a time when white Americans began to use marijuana in large numbers and this is a really good book to read high. So is pic related tbqh.

>> No.10146153

We Love Time

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>>10145920
My sides

>> No.10146221

Malazan.

Erikson writes, "But epic fantasy has moved on, something critics have failed to notice." He goes on,
"One example of this can be gleaned from my own beginnings as a writer of fantasy, which I suspect was commonplace among my colleagues. In my youth, I sidestepped Tolkien entirely, finding my inspiration and pleasure in the genre through Howard, Burroughs, and Leiber. And as with many of my fellow epic fantasy writers, our first experience of the Tolkien tropes of epic fantasy came not from books, but from Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying games ... As my own gaming experience advanced, it was not long before I abandoned those tropes ... Accordingly, my influences in terms of fiction are post-Tolkien, and they came from conscious responses to Tolkien (Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series) and unconscious responses to Tolkien (Cook's Dread Empire and Black Company series).

Also this >>10145734

>> No.10146229

>>10146221
Why is there this meme that Tolkien had some especially large influence on D&D? They took a bunch of creatures like ents and hobbits, but the actual game is much more like a Leiber swords and sorcery adventure than Tolkien's myth-like storytelling

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>>10145701

>> No.10147557

>>10145924
This, read it and cry a lot

>> No.10148586

>>10146229
Wishful thinking by nerds.

t. Faithful Tolkien reader & /tg/ apologist