Along the way, the company faces trolls, goblins, giant spiders, and worse. We hope every fan finds a new favorite on this list.The complete four-book boxed set of the greatest fantasy epic of all time: The Lord of the Rings and its enchanting prequel, The Hobbit When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim the hoard of gold stolen from them by the evil dragon Smaug, Gandalf the wizard suggests an unlikely accomplice: Bilbo Baggins, an unassuming Hobbit dwelling in peaceful Hobbiton.
We've rounded up some of the best fantasy ever written, including both classics that a true fan shouldn't miss, newcomers that make a necessary addition to the canon and lots of diversity in the realms of origin stories and the authors who dreamed them into being. Fantasy, for our purposes, is everything else that tickles our less-skeptical side. If it features the extraterrestrial, we'd call that science fiction, or ghost stories, which we consider horror. In general, we're considering stories that include an element of the unexplainable.
Lewis and Lewis Carroll as the pinnacle of the form.
Originating from the oral tradition of folklore and stories told around ancient campfires, some consider mythology and epics, like The Odyssey,to be the purest form of fantasy, while others point to the likes of J.R.R. Now, the best fantasy books aren't all dusty tomes that have been passed down for generations.Īs the oldest genre of literature on record, what constitutes fantasy often depends on who you ask. As an adult, I still treasure that first foray into other realms, but my appetite for fantasy has diversified.
For years, hobbits, wizards and elves populated my dreams as the stories I heard enriched and expanded my own imagination. Tolkien's fantastical tales of adventure in Middle Earth every night before I fell asleep.
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