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What other fantasy should I read if I’m obsessed with Lord of the Rings? (lemmy.ml)

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I’ve been a huge fan of the movies since they first came out but didn’t read the books until the beginning of this year. I just wasn’t a reader until recently. I’ve been yearning for some more fantasy but haven’t been able to find anything similar. I tried The Silmarillion but it reads too much like a textbook to me.

What are some other great fantasy books that I might like?

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[–] medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's a little different in style, but my all-time favorite series is the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix. (Lord of the Rings is a close second). It's a series with extremely well-written female protagonists with a very interesting and detailed magic system, and the protagonists are a family lineage of anti-necromancers.

I love these two series enough that I have a tattoo of a quote from the Old Kingdom series written in Quenya. (I did a phonetic translation due to the lack of appropriate vocabulary in the conlang, but the calligraphy is correct.)