Anyone read

[QuietLunatic]

Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books and find them to be a poor man's LOTR? I read the first one years ago at the insistence of a friend of mine and found the parallels to be very distracting. I've never read the rest of the trilogy, although that same friend gave them to me. Maybe it's time.

[Beren One-Hand]

Never heard of them before.  I've read other fantasy author's as well - i.e. Roger Taylor - "The Chronicles of Hawlan" - actually pretty good; also "The Highwayman," by R.A. Salvatore - good also.  But as most people here, Tolkien is king, when it comes to fantasy.  I also love the Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis was also a great writer and was even a friend of Tolkien.

[the-glyphon]

I found some rough similarities but really never read passed Wgite Gold Weilder as surely one of the least interesting and all round nastiest so-called heros a writer has ever come up with.  Tolkein could write about even just the passing scenery in a way that made it interesting, Donaldson could not.