[Moridin]

Have you read The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan? It's an unfinished series--book 10 should be out next fall. Personally, I like it better than the LOTR.

Still, I can't wait for next month's movie release.

[JenB]

Wheel of Time? Wheel of Time? You're comparing the World's First Fantasy Soap Opera, complete with seven thousand major characters, all with their own mental problems, to Tolkien? Sheesh...

Seriously, don't let me get started on Jordan. I have been known to stand and argue about Wheel of Time for three hours straight. However, I have also read all the books as soon as they come out. Why? Uh, because Perrin is cool?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Jordan's book are a beginning. They aren't the beginning, but they are a beginning. Now if he would only come up with an ending!

Tolkien was the beginning of modern fantasy writing. Everything else is a child or step child of Middle-earth.

[cake_crumb]

"Have you read The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan? It's an unfinished series--book 10 should be out next fall. Personally, I like it better than the LOTR."

I've read all the books so far. Frankly, I think the whole series could have been finished up in four books, instead of...what are we on now, the eighth? If his characters were a little less screwed up. I get very frustrated with them. His story line is very original, though, which is why I read them.

IMO, Raymond E. Feist and R.A. Salvatore are much better.

The father of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkein, is in a class all by himself. He is the master.

Hmmm, since I just finished rereading LOTR not long ago, maybe I'll reread "Farmer Giles of Ham".