Summary

There's a sense in which the fantasy genre was reinvented by J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings . That was the birth of modern epic fantasy, and every subsequent series has been in conversation with it; either spinning out of it, or consciously reacting against it. Regardless, the basic pattern was set; epic fantasies are vast, sprawling sagas that take place in wonderfully well-developed worlds.

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