Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
Magister Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
The Shadowmarch Books by Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams
I'm reading Sanderson's The Way of Kings; I really think Sanderson is the successor to Professor Tolkien. Whereas Tolkien was an ace at worldbuilding and a good philologist, Sanderson manages to combine worldbuilding with storytelling to reveal the world in a manner pertinent to the plot. That is to say that he doesn't stop the plot to lecture about the world of TWOK/Stormlight Archives.
So I'm looking for stuff that sort of comes out of the long shadow cast by Tolkien's work, that "long shadow" being the myriad Tolkien immitators overcrowding the fantasy shelves.
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Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
Magister Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
The Shadowmarch Books by Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams
I'm reading Sanderson's The Way of Kings; I really think Sanderson is the successor to Professor Tolkien. Whereas Tolkien was an ace at worldbuilding and a good philologist, Sanderson manages to combine worldbuilding with storytelling to reveal the world in a manner pertinent to the plot. That is to say that he doesn't stop the plot to lecture about the world of TWOK/Stormlight Archives.
So I'm looking for stuff that sort of comes out of the long shadow cast by Tolkien's work, that "long shadow" being the myriad Tolkien immitators overcrowding the fantasy shelves.