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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Four SF/Fantasy bloggers have seperately put together their lists of what they consider to be the 50 essential epic fantasies with the following rules:
*No more than one book or series from each author. For example, J.R.R. Tolkien could go in for The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings series, but not both.
*No anthologies.
*You can only list books that you have read.
*Definitions of “essential”, “epic” and “fantasy” are left to personal interpretation.
Some interesting choices.
Justin Landon
Liz Bourke
Jared Shurin
Tansy Rayner Roberts
Some I've read. Some I've partly read. Some I've never heard before. |
I don't think that "The Hobbit" counts as epic fantasy simply because it isn't long enough. I mean LOTR is split into 3 Volumes each of which in the table of contents is split into at least two books and it covers months of time, thousands of miles and many, many events all over the place. The hobbit on the other hand is a lot shorter and is basically just a "there and back again" story. All the characters (save Gandalf) who go on the trip to reclaim lonely mountain from Smaug stay together for the most part throughout the course of the story. In LOTR on the other hand they start out together and go their separate ways for most of the story up until the very end.