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

Postby rocklobster » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:36 am

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
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Postby Puritan » Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:43 am

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
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Postby FarmGirl » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:08 am

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.
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:09 am

chronicles of narnia and Lotr (btw by chronicles of narnia i mean basically the whole story series)
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Postby Lynx » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:26 am

my favorite fantasy series is terry goodkind's "sword of truth" novels.
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Postby Destroyer2000 » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:36 pm

Hm....

Chronicles of Narnia
Never read the books, but LotR
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Postby Technomancer » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:54 pm

What, no Discworld? I'd say Lord of the Rings.
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Postby Tringard » Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:31 pm

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...
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:45 pm

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.
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Postby EireWolf » Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:36 pm

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.
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Postby Maledicte » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:07 pm

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.
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Postby bigsleepj » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:52 pm

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.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:21 pm

*Chronicles of Narnia
*Lord of the Rings
*Harry Potter
*Incarnations Of Immortality
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Postby Locke » Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:35 pm

LOTR, Narnia, etc etc.

And even though most people disagree, I really liked the Eragon series.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:43 pm

The Eragon series? Oh dear Locke. lol
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Postby Locke » Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:53 pm

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. ;)
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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:28 pm

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.
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Postby Scribs » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:33 pm

I voted Potter, though I do like Chronicles of Narnia, LoTR, and Wheel of Time (though less and less as it goes on)
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Postby Puritan » Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:14 pm

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.
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Postby Kkun » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:39 pm

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
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Postby starwarsboy90 » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:26 am

My favorite Fantasy Series is

Chronicles of Narnia
Lord Of The Rings
Final Fantasy
and last....Earthsea
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Postby Rachel » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:00 pm

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
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Postby soul alive » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:45 pm

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



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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.
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Postby Sennin » Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:31 am

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!
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Postby Gypsy » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:20 am

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.
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Postby Icarus » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:09 pm

Modesitt's Saga of Recluse
Prachett's Discworld
Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher.
Anthony's Xanth
Aspirin's M.Y.T.H. Series.
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Postby Doe Johnson » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:39 pm

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)
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Postby KBMaster » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:29 am

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.
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Postby chimera189 » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:28 pm

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)
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Postby Godly Paladin » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:56 pm

Hey, where's Lewis' Space Trilogy???
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