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c) The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks
- even when I read it as a child it felt like a lame Tolkien rip off to me, although I did want to find some sapphires to pretend they were elfstones (then I read the Elfstones of Shannara and was disappointed even more)
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It *is* a lame Tolkien ripoff. But it's still a very important book as it kicked off the whole modern fantasy genre. Before it came out Tolkien was pretty much it (no one was publishing Lord Dunsany or E. R. Eddison, let alone reading it). After it came Stephen R. Donaldson and Piers Anthony and all the rest.
Oh, and the Shanarra books are now going to be made into movies.
