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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
...in '77, a fantasy fan who didn't want to re-read Tolkien again really only had Donaldson and Brooks to choose from...
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Be grateful you had those three.
The only fantasy book we had was
The Hobbit, and that was basically it (well, except for fairytales, of which there were plenty. I had literally a hundred or so fairytale books in childhood). I got to read LoTR for the first time in 1994, when my father bought it for me in the UK (he was a long-distance sailor). It, and ergo the whole fantasy genre, was forbidden in the Soviet Union (a fact of which I wasn't aware before reading it, of course).