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[Anonymous No.17412827]

Name a good fantasy book or series other than Tolkien.

[Anonymous No.17412836]

my diary desu

[Anonymous No.17412860]

[Anonymous No.17412877]

>>17412827
the faerie queene by edmund spenser

[Anonymous No.17412883]

>>17412877
too highbrow for this board

[Anonymous No.17412920]

Watership down

[Anonymous No.17412923]

>>17412883
>too highbrow for this board
my elitism could not take this comment and I'm looking into buying this immediately. I've read Edmund Spenser poetry before but nothing longer than a few pages, how does this hold up in comparison is it his best stuff?

any more recs?

[Anonymous No.17413160]

>>17412827
Yeah. That’s what a retard looks like when he’s trying to think of any book other than the one he wikes.

[Anonymous No.17413171]

>>17412923
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso

thats all I got

[Anonymous No.17413174]

>>17412923
The FQ is his magnum opus and can be enjoyed on many levels of allegory. As a poet, spenser is really enjoyable to read. I would recommend starting with the shepheardes calendar as a taster, it's quite short and can be read in a few hours.
Here's an example from Book 1, where the Redcrosse knight fights the dragon. Note how vivid and inventive the description is. The language is intentionally archaic, and you would benefit from being familiar with chaucer beforehand.

By this the dreadfull Beast drew nigh to hand,
Halfe flying, and halfe footing in his haste,
That with his largenesse measured much land,
And made wide shadow under his huge wast,
As mountaine doth the valley overcast.
Approching nigh, he reared high afore
His body monstrous, horrible, and vaste,
Which to increase his wondrous greatnesse more,
Was swoln with wrath, and poyson, and with bloudy gore.

And over, all with brasen scales was armd,
Like plated coate of steele, so couched neare,
That nought mote perce, ne might his corse be harmd
With dint of sword, nor push of pointed speare;
Which, as an Eagle, seeing pray appeare,
His aery plumes doth rouze, full rudely dight;
So shaked he, that horrour was to heare,
For as the clashing of an Armour bright,
Such noyse his rouzed scales did send unto the knight.

His flaggy wings when forth he did display,
Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd
Is gathered full, and worketh speedy way:
And eke the pennes, that did his pineons bynd,
Were like mayne-yards, with flying canvas lynd;
With which whenas him list the ayre to beat,
And there by force unwonted passage find,
The cloudes before him fled for terrour great,
And all the heavens stood still amazed with his threat.

[Anonymous No.17413179]

>>17412827
Moby-Dick if you read between the lines

[Anonymous No.17413189]

>>17412827
Bujould's Penric novellas. The main character is a swiss twink possessed by a demon(female), and in one book he disguises himself as a long-dead courtesan and gives a guy oral to maintain cover.

[Anonymous No.17413204]

Chronicles of Narnia

[Anonymous No.17413205]

>>17412827
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

[Anonymous No.17413211]

>>17412877
Based.

[Anonymous No.17413224]

Discworld.

First it turned every shitty fantasy trope oozed by Tolkien’s spawn on their head.

Then it became a vehicle for clever social commentary and satire.

Then it became a fleshed out fantasy world in its own right while avoiding becoming an adopted oozling of Tolkien.

Then the author’s brain melted and his prose became bricks of Wattpad.

Pretty good other than the last bit imo.

[Anonymous No.17413232]

>>17413174
>>17413171
thanks guys

[Anonymous No.17413245]

>>17413224
The setting and the magic system in Discworld is really great, but the satire and clever commentary is really the best part.

[Anonymous No.17413266]

>>17412827
How fucking high is that guy?

[Anonymous No.17413304]

>>17413245
Totally, Small Gods especially.
A nuanced view on religion is rare among the atheist race.

[Anonymous No.17413386]

>>17412827
The 'Farseer' books by Robin Hobb are pretty fun.

[Anonymous No.17413405]

Is it good lads?

[Anonymous No.17413727]

[Anonymous No.17413770]

hide and report rec threads

[Anonymous No.17414172]

>>17413205
>>17413224
>>17413245
>>17413304
Fuck off Reddit!

[Anonymous No.17414207]

>>17414172
Cringe.
How the hell is discworld more reddit than LOTR? If anything, discworld is the less gentrified of the two.

[Anonymous No.17414213]

>>17413405
It's incredible, especially for someone with a background in Jacobean or Elizabethan English literature

[Anonymous No.17414222]

>>17414207
Nonsense, Pratchett's worldview is the default Liberal White bourgeois one