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The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter III "Mount Doom"
I get it.
Tolkien's prose!
I hear frequent bitching about Tolkein's complexity or over-attention to detail, then I revisit something like The Stormlight Archive and wonder how millions of people are actually out there drooling over Brandon Sanderson's work, which (at least in that series) feels like the creative and visual equivalent of a mostly empty dust pan lying about in a vacant dirt lot somewhere on an undeveloped piece of land in the middle of Idaho, with a single tiny glass bead illuminated inside of it. It's so fucking bland that getting through those books felt like I was waiting at the DMV with several strangers I didn't like or care about.
Edit: To be fair, Dalinar was likable.
I just read the first Stormlight book and thought it was a great read, definitely more of a beach read fantasy especially compared to Tolkien but a well put together story at the very least. I see where you're coming from though.
Do you have suggestions for other fantasy that you feel compares to Tolkien and doesn't remind you of a dirty rural parking lot?
I'm going through Wheel of Time now and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's not as elegant as Tolkein, but it definitely leans more towards that style than Sanderson does.
I haven’t started Wheel of Time yet but The Kingkiller Chronicles had some prose that I could just not put down.
It gets a little eye-rolly in the second book for me (IYKYK) but I think Rothfuss deserves a place in this convo for sure. My opinion.
Absolutely loved those books but can’t recommend reading them until book 3 comes out, lest others be stuck with us in this same eternal purgatory.
I... Depending on what book you are on you do realize that Brandon Sanderson wrote some of those I hope.
I love Wheel of Time. Solid fantasy. Not sure if you’re aware but the author passed away before being able to finish the series. He left notes on how to complete the series and on who he thought should be the one to write the last book. The authors publisher, also his wife, went through all those notes and ultimately picked Sanderson to complete the series. He does a fantastic job at it too and had I not known before hand I would have been hard pressed to realize the author changed.
The Wheel of Time is something that really deserves the commonly drawn comparison with the Lord of the Rings.
Is it as contrived and hackneyed as the tv show? Because that show is garbage but I never read the books.
It's much better than the show. The show was shit and they significantly changed the characters in extremely stupid and unnecessary ways.