/lit/ - Literature

>>22103344
Is there any fantasy series worth reading?

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>>22103350
Lord of the Rings

>>22103344
>>22103350

Edge Chronicles turbokino

>>22103344
>>22103350
Lord of the Rings

>>22103344
Watership Down

>>22103344
Yes, the Gormenghast Trilogy.

Earthsea

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>>22103635
>Read
The pictures are good, that's about it.

nope.

>>22103344
I remember reading this in a day when I was 12 or 13. Absolutely captivating, until the Battle of the Five Armies. I was a little disappointed by that.

>>22103344
the hobbit is a series?

>>22103344
Poor man's Wagner.

>>22105645
what was disappointing about it exactly ?

>>22103350
Warhammer fantasy is alright

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>>22103493
>>22103644
>Writers like Tolkien take you to the edge of the Abyss and point out the excellent tea-garden at the bottom, showing you the steps carved into the cliff and reminding you to be a bit careful because the hand-rails are a trifle shaky as you go down; they haven’t got the approval yet to put a new one in.
>The great epics dignified death, but they did not ignore it, and it is one of the reasons why they are superior to the artificial romances, of which Lord of the Rings is merely one of the most recent.
>The sort of prose most often identified with “high” fantasy is the prose of the nursery-room. It is a lullaby; it is meant to soothe and console. It is mouth-music. It is frequently enjoyed not for its tensions but for its lack of tensions. It coddles; it makes friends with you; it tells you comforting lies. It is soft
>Moderation was the rule and it is moderation which ruins Tolkien’s fantasy and causes it to fail as a genuine romance. The little hills and woods of that Surrey of the mind, the Shire, are “safe”, but the wild landscapes everywhere beyond the Shire are “dangerous”. Experience of life itself is dangerous. The Lord of the Rings is a pernicious con- firmation of the values of a morally bankrupt middle class. Their cowardly, Home Counties habits are primarily responsible for the problems England now faces. The Lord of the Rings is much more deep-rooted in its infantilism than a good many of the more obviously juvenile books it influenced. It is Winnie-the-Pooh posing as an epic. If the Shire is a suburban garden, Sauron and his henchmen are that old bourgeois bugaboo, the Mob — mindless football supporters throwing their beer-bottles over the fence — the worst aspects of modern urban society represented as the whole by a fearful, backward-yearning class for whom “good taste” is synonymous with “re- straint” (pastel colours, murmured protest) and “civilized” behaviour means “conventional be- haviour in all circumstances”. This is not to deny that courageous characters are found in The Lord of the Rings, or a willingness to fight Evil — but somehow those courageous characters take on the aspect of retired colonels at last driven to write a letter to The Times and we are not sure — because Tolkien cannot really bring himself to get close to his proles and their satanic leaders — if Sauron and Co. are quite as evil as we’re told. After all, anyone who hates hobbits can’t be all bad.

>>22105934
What is the origin of this dyspeptic Marxist copypasta?

>>22103803
Based but it's not fantasy. It's the Iliad/Odyssey with bunnies.

>>22105994
It is fantasy. Rabbits can't speak.

>>22105997
I hope this is bait

>>22105994
If the Iliad were written today, it would categorized as fantasy. You didn't know?

>>22105963
Epic Pooh
It makes tolkiendrones seethe
Keep pretending that a book that's fantasy dumbed down and kiddified for normies with prissy catholic morality added is "based"

elves are so cool. how do i enter elf mode?

>>22106341
become gay

>>22103947
2>1>3

It had its moments, but overall I thought it was too long.

>>22106375
>I thought it was too long.
just like LOTR

CS Lewis>Tolkeen

>>22106391
Where should I start with Lewis?

>>22106395
Narnia then Space trilogy then Till We Have Faces.

>>22106395
idk I haven't read either of em

>>22106404
probably the wrong person to ask

>>22105645
>spends 2 days on /lit/

Wolfe
Bakker
Vance
Elric
I didn’t care for Malazan.