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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1333072" data-attributes="member: 1015">No apologies necessary.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And I, too, have noticed that we agree on RAS-related issues most of the time.  The only major difference in our opinions that I can recall are our feelings on the character of Catti-Brie (you don't mind her, but she annoys me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).Other RAS novels that I think are great are Homeland, The Legacy, Siege of Darkness, and the Icewind Dale trilogy.  I've also been very impressed with The Thousand Orcs and The Lone Drow, and either one of those could be a possible addition to this list.I have mixed feelings on Spine of the World.  On one hand it devotes a lot of pages to a boring subplot about a peasent girl and the nobleman who is smitten with her that dosen't seem to go anywhere until the very end of the book.  On the other hand, we get to see a different side of Wulfgar.  Plus, the character of Morik the Rogue was really cool.  I hope we haven't seen the last of him.The only RAS books that disappointed me were Sojourn, Passage to Dawn, and Sea of Swords.  Strangely, all of those are the final books in their respective series.  I hope that this tradition dosen't continue with The Two Swords. I can't believe I missed this my first time through. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Let's see... a reluctant halfling who possesses a powerful magic artifact, a mysterious ranger who knows more than he lets on, a dwarven king seeking to reclaim his lost realm (although this is more of a Hobbit ripoff than LotR), a character who supposedly falls to his death but returns in the next book, a mine full of a rare silvery metal that became inhabited by an evil creature of shadow after the dwarves delved too deep...Yeah, there are definately parts in The Icewind Dale Trilogy that could be considered Tolkien ripoffs.Although, to RAS's credit, there aren't many Tolkien ripoffs after that original trilogy.</blockquote>

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