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Mahabarata
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The best books I have ever read, sorry OSC, with a story as complex as I don´t now what. And a story that only scratch the surface of the history. The great thing are that you notice just that. This is also the only book I have read that engage the reader so completly that you want to join the heroes just to help them fight their enemies.
[Hail] [Hail] Tolkien [Hail] [Hail]

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Mahabarata
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What I wan´t to say is simply this.
To all other fantasy writers:
Feel owned, so freking owned.

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You might want to also try out: A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R. R. Martin.

He is not a Tolkien clone, but your description here of why you liked LotR sounds to me like some other books [Smile] .

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quote:
You might want to also try out: A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R. R. Martin
ditto
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Mahabarata
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I will do that.
(If I manage to find it here in distant sweden)

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Hey, another Tolkien fan. Cool [Smile] And those books are amazing, but its definately the intricacy of the history that makes them so great. There's so much of it there, and it's such a detailed and well crafted world. Its amazing.

I love Middle Earth, and Lord of the Rings.

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The movies don't even come close to the books. I was slightly disappointed. Oh well.
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Primal Curve
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Yeah, I know. Tolkien fans are so few and far between these days.
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I'm the biggest Tolkein fan I know. I absolutley love anything connected to LotR. I actually won $50 becuase I was the most knowledgable of LotR at a local book store.
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Whenever I reread LotR the only negative is I miss that first reading experience of glimpsing that tantalising history underneath the story.
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