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Favorite Fantasy Series (Yes, you can vote multiple ones)

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:36 am
by rocklobster
What are your fave fantasy series? Here are mine, in Alphabetical order
  1. Circle Of Magic
  2. Harry Potter
  3. Chronicles of Prydain
  4. Lord of the Rings (yes Silmarrion and The Hobbit count as part)
  5. Xanth
  6. The Incarnations of Immortality
  7. The Oz Books (up until Baum died anyway. And yes, I read all 14 of his books. There are 40 in all , in case anyone wants to know
  8. Earthsea
  9. Lone Wolf (Choose Your Own Adventure/RPG style fantasy series)
  10. Narnia

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:43 am
by Puritan
Let's see:

The Chronicles of Narnia (Unfortunately I forgot to vote for it)
Harry Potter
The Lord of the Rings books
The Saga of Recluce by L. E. Modesitt
The Wheel of Time

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:08 am
by FarmGirl
In no particular order:
The Lord of the Rings
Chronicles of Narnia
Lamb Among the Stars

...And that's about it. Haven't had much success with finding others.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:09 am
by GrubbTheFragger
chronicles of narnia and Lotr (btw by chronicles of narnia i mean basically the whole story series)

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:26 am
by Lynx
my favorite fantasy series is terry goodkind's "sword of truth" novels.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:36 pm
by Destroyer2000
Hm....

Chronicles of Narnia
Never read the books, but LotR
The Heralds of Valdemar/ any book from the Valdemarian world

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:54 pm
by Technomancer
What, no Discworld? I'd say Lord of the Rings.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:31 pm
by Tringard
Chronicles of Narnia
LotR
Harry Potter
Sword of Truth (mentioned by Lynx above, although this series has declined some with time :()
Song of Albion series by Stephen Lawhead

Other fantasy I'd be willing to name as favorite doesn't really qualify as series being single books...

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:45 pm
by Warrior 4 Jesus
Chronicles of Narnia, then Lord of the Rings, but Harry Potter is an alright read.
The Song of Albion series is very good also and the Earthsea books are good, but not great.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:36 pm
by EireWolf
I voted Narnia and Lord of the Rings. I haven't read most of the others. I also loved Song of Albion and the Pendragon Cycle (both series by Stephen Lawhead), and I'm rereading the Firebringer trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce (yay for unicorns!). Another really good series is the Belgariad by David Eddings.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:07 pm
by Maledicte
Stephen Lawhead's series, Barbara Hambly's "Time of Dark" series, Dragonlance.

I've probably read other series I've enjoyed, but I've forgotten them.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:52 pm
by bigsleepj
The Chronicles of Prydain has always been underated and undervalued. It is one of my favourite series. I also sort-off liked the Sword of Truth series, but the adult content is off-putting.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:21 pm
by mitsuki lover
*Chronicles of Narnia
*Lord of the Rings
*Harry Potter
*Incarnations Of Immortality

PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:35 pm
by Locke
LOTR, Narnia, etc etc.

And even though most people disagree, I really liked the Eragon series.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:43 pm
by Warrior 4 Jesus
The Eragon series? Oh dear Locke. lol

PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:53 pm
by Locke
Warrior 4 Jesus wrote:The Eragon series? Oh dear Locke. lol



Psh, it takes effort to make up 50 + characters and weird elf names, and i respect that...enough to barely enjoy the books. ;)

PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:28 pm
by mitsuki lover
For those who haven't read or heard of it Incarnations of Immortality consists of:
Riding A Pale Horse(Death)
Being A Green Mother(Mother Nature)
Wielding A Red Sword(War)
and several others.
In each one an ordinary man or woman finds him or herself faced with the responsibility of taking on one of the 7 Immortal Incarnations.Each has a different way of doing so.For example in Riding A Pale Horse the new Death takes over after
killing his successor.In Wielding A Red Sword the new War(Ares)gets the job for having the best martial qualifications.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:33 pm
by Scribs
I voted Potter, though I do like Chronicles of Narnia, LoTR, and Wheel of Time (though less and less as it goes on)

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:14 pm
by Puritan
At least Jordan is finally ENDING the Wheel of Time. For a while I thought he would die before it was done. New characters every book, no conclusion of the storyline....at least it looks like it will be done at book 13.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:39 pm
by Kkun
Anything with Drizzt Do'Urden makes me salivate. R.A. Salvatore is basically incredible at writing fight scenes, as well as interesting characters and stories. I love The Icewind Dale Trilogy and the Dark Elf Trilogy so very, very much

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:26 am
by starwarsboy90
My favorite Fantasy Series is

Chronicles of Narnia
Lord Of The Rings
Final Fantasy
and last....Earthsea

PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:00 pm
by Rachel
Harry Potter
Forgotton Realms
the Dresden Files
the Pendragon something or other
Artemis Fowl
and the few Chronicles of Narnia books I've read were really good

PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:45 pm
by soul alive
Chronicles of Narnia.

and since I was too lazy to click more than one box, others I like:
Harry Potter
Nearly any series by Lawhead
Shanara series by Terry Brooks
LotR
Dragonriders of Pern, though it is also somewhat sci-fi as well



Off topic (semi-rant):

I've read Incarnations of Immortality. I could sort of handle the unnecessary sexuality in the books and the bad religion, until I got to the final book, dealing with the incarnation of Good: God. This book upset me very much, especially as a Christian, as God is removed from His position and replaced in the book, since the other incarnations felt that He was aloof and not doing His job, nor doing anything to counter the evil actions of Satan.

After taking a good look at the rest of Anthony's books, I decided that I couldn't with good conscience read his stuff any more. They have some good points, like their humor (Xanth) and interresting plots, but there was so much sex and bad religion among other things that I just couldn't read them any more.

Sorry if I sound narrow minded, but that's my choice. I won't condemn anyone who does read them, but I would suggest taking a serious evaluation of the books.

PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:31 am
by Sennin
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Sword of Shannara
3. The Runelords
4. The King's Blades
5. The Word and Void Trilogy

Those are my top five. So much Fantasy to read and so little time to do it!

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:20 am
by Gypsy
I like Terry Brooks' books (type that ten times fast), Lawhead's series are good (although I always end up being too crital of them in the end), and then of course the Tolkien books, and not forgetting C.S. Lewis in the mix.

Christian fantasy is somewhat lacking (ok, very lacking), but Miles Owens may be a good author to watch out for. His Daughter of Prophecy was pretty good.

And last, but not least, I'm still in love with the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:09 pm
by Icarus
Modesitt's Saga of Recluse
Prachett's Discworld
Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher.
Anthony's Xanth
Aspirin's M.Y.T.H. Series.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:39 pm
by Doe Johnson
Ooooo....tough...I love nearly every book I read, even ones others think are poorly written. And since sci-fi sorta goes along with fantasy, I'm including some of those.

Not exactly their order, but somewhere nearish how much I like them, might be about 5 series off:
A Song of Ice and Fire
Ender Series (just Game and Shadow really, not so much the others)
Hitchhiker's Trilogy
The Sevenwaters Trilogy
The Wheel of Time (the only one I didn't like was Path of Daggers)
Redwall
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
The Coldfire Trilogy
Belgariad/Mallorean
Harry Potter
Dragonriders of Pern
The Lost Years of Merlin
Shannara
The Lord of the Rings (read when I was in 6th grade so can't decide where to put it)
The Chronicles of Narnia (read when I was in 6th grade so can't decide where to put it)

PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:29 am
by KBMaster
I voted for Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings. While I love Harry Potter, it's not my favorite, so I couldn't bring myself to vote for it.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:28 pm
by chimera189
Forgotten Realms and Sword of Truth series' have always been a faverite read of mine
(SoT has been an on/off eries for awhile though)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:56 pm
by Godly Paladin
Hey, where's Lewis' Space Trilogy???