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Turns out the genre is kind of barren and only really has Tolkien or C.S Lewis but there still pretty good though. Just expected more variety.

>> No.12200172

>>12200158
Tolkien is more Late Antiquity than High Middle Ages

>> No.12200203

>>12200172
OP never mentioned HMA, and late antiquity was medieval in all but politics

>> No.12200206

JRR Tolkien IS fantasy. There is no fantasy novel that is not derivative of Tolkien. The only other series worth reading is BotNS

>> No.12200445

>>12200158
The Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, all the other cap few nerds care about like Mistborn or whatever?

>>12200206
Tolkien is derivative of E. R. Eddison's Zimiamvian Trilogy and varios forms of mythology.

>> No.12200526

>>12200158
Did you try Neil Gaiman? Mythological beings fucking and killing each other.
Have you ever seen the genie from Aladdin nutting in a pakiboi's mouth?

>> No.12200968

>>12200203
The line between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages IS blurred I guess

>> No.12200976
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>>12200158

>> No.12202188

>>12200445
Also Howard's Conan worldbuilding predates Tolkein. And also William Blake predates them all, though Blake's mythopoeia is very different and metaphysical

>> No.12202298

>>12200206
>BotNS
The Book of the New Sun (1980s) ?
or something else older?

>> No.12202313

am i the only person in the world who read Ivanhoe

>> No.12202431

OP has to be trolling. Lewis is pretty far from Medieval fantasy and if you're including it then you probably also ought to include Discoworld, Sword & Sorcery in general, and all the shitty YA series like Eragon that maybe have a knight or dragon show up thus making them medieval.

You also have a bunch of classic and contemporary interpretations of Robin Hood and the Arthurian legends not to mention all the people directly ripping off Tolkien in the decade or so after he first published The Hobbit and then again after LotR.

>> No.12202443

>>12200976
Is Arthurian stuff any good, or is it dry and boring like I imagine?

>> No.12202478

>>12200445
> Wikipedia page for Zimiamvian Trilogy
> Literary critic Don D'Ammassa has claimed that the Zimiamvian trilogy has "powerfully drawn" characters, especially the villains. He notes that none of the protagonists, with the exception of Lessingham, comes across as "entirely admirable".[1]

"""""insisghtful"""""

>> No.12202560

>>12202443
They weren't written to be interesting. The writers tried to reconstruct what they thought really happened based on oral recollections.

>> No.12202756

>>12202443
no joke, the stuff by Steinbeck is a blast
The Once and Future King is also kino

>> No.12203017

>>12202313
Man I started Ivanhoe a long time ago and I really loved it. I think I'll finish it over Christmas