If I like D&D and LotR....

[Wolf72]

The Black Company series.

I'll second this one ...

I just read Children of Hurin, off and on with Instrumentalities of the Night series by Glen Cook ... It was odd reading the two styles.

Tolkien was more poetic and fairy tale like ... Elves and all,

Cook wrote things more like a grim n gritty type ... everyone being Human.


I kept thinking: I wonder what the really said? or what they really felt?

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Terry Brooks spent much of his career writing books for people who liked LotR and wanted more.

LOL. Nice backhand!

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I'll second this one ...

I just read Children of Hurin, off and on with Instrumentalities of the Night series by Glen Cook ... It was odd reading the two styles.

Tolkien was more poetic and fairy tale like ... Elves and all,

Cook wrote things more like a grim n gritty type ... everyone being Human.


I kept thinking: I wonder what the really said? or what they really felt?

When the Company was truding through the sandstorms that Stormbringer was throwing around trying to get to Charm, I could perfectly picture it. The ragtag band, assorted pieces of cloth jammed anywhere to try and keep the sand out, the blasting wind, etc. Same for the parts about them being in the snow covered areas. I fall into the book and can visualize being there in a march through hell and back with the Company. When people rip Cook's writing style over not being descriptive enough I shake my head. Cook isn't writing a novel to be a vehicle for history and language, he's writing a story about this company of soliders, he describes what he needs to and not much more.

 

[Olli]

you should try steve eriksons "malazan books of the fallen" saga. the first book"gardens of the moon" is a bit weird and confusing at first but it has a strong d&d feeling to it and is a good read. just push through the first 150 pages and you will be fine...

 

[Lockridge]

Lots of good recommendations here.
Once you tire of generic fantasy give the Thomas Covenant Chronicles a try. By Stephen R. Donaldson.
These are not for everybody since it moves a little slower but Donaldson seems to create characters that you care about. He doesn't just describe action he lets you feel the emotion behind it. The main character of Thomas Covenant is an anti-hero that some people hate and others love but still one of the most unique characters out there.
If you like it you'll probably like it a lot.

 

[Asmo]

Lots of good recommendations here.
Once you tire of generic fantasy give the Thomas Covenant Chronicles a try. By Stephen R. Donaldson.
These are not for everybody since it moves a little slower but Donaldson seems to create characters that you care about. He doesn't just describe action he lets you feel the emotion behind it. The main character of Thomas Covenant is an anti-hero that some people hate and others love but still one of the most unique characters out there.
If you like it you'll probably like it a lot.

Seconded.

Asmo

 

[Particle_Man]

Warning on the Thomas Covenant series:

The "anti-hero" rapes someone in the first book. That might be a little further down the "anti" path than you might want to go.

 

[Lockridge]

Warning on the Thomas Covenant series:

The "anti-hero" rapes someone in the first book. That might be a little further down the "anti" path than you might want to go.

I won't argue and I certainly don't condone his action but I will comment (without spoilers) by saying that there is FAR more to the situation and character than you have stated in that one line. The anti-hero is an anti-hero in the real literary sense - not some Vin Diesel bad boy.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I won't argue and I certainly don't condone his action but I will comment (without spoilers) by saying that there is FAR more to the situation and character than you have stated in that one line. The anti-hero is an anti-hero in the real literary sense - not some Vin Diesel bad boy.

Very true.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Warning on the Thomas Covenant series:

The "anti-hero" rapes someone in the first book. That might be a little further down the "anti" path than you might want to go.

Have you read the rest of the series or did you give up at that point?

A little context is necessary-- or, at least, honest-- if you're going to try to put someone else off the series.