Favorite Castle Book?
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Lord of the Rings and other works related to this by J.R.R Tolkien has to be the best way to love Medieval stuff etc. Theres a fine line between medieval life and fantasy and Tolkien brings them both together. Personaly the books are better than the films but the films bring the book into contrast. Tolkien is definetly the best author for fantasy and medieval stuff and I recomend it to anyone that is intrested in fantasy,history,lego castle etc.
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In my early teenage I read a lot of fantasy novels, starting out with Lloyd Alexander and C. S. Lewis and then of course went on with Tolkien. The first two i recall as aiming towards young readers and I guess they are great in their own right as such. In some of Tolkiens works lies more deept that still appeals to me as a "young adult" or whatever you call the age I'm now (22).
After these (and a few other in the same manner) quite many of storys I think I nowdays would regard as quite flat, Eddings, Brooks, Williams, Goodkind etc. and having very much the same consepts (a young boy/man grows as a person becaus the world is harsh on him, bo-ho. This I find very true for Harry Potter too which I read later on).
Some were of course "aimed" at beeing more humoristic (Pratchett of course, and I remember Hickman/Weis as having quite much of that to?) and I guess that if I was searching for something like that now I could still turn to them.
In others like Redwall and Empire Trilogy the milieus are so speciell I think the could be inspiering even as the storys isn't very great.
Left in my mind then as just good storys which I can long for is Katharine Kerr and Robin Hobb, but maybe this division is just someting I'v got into my mind due to when I read and what appealed especially to my taste rather than the actuall litterary quality.
For "non-fantasy-still-fictional-in-some-kind-of-medival-setting" I had Ronia the Robber's Daughter, The Brothers Lionheart and Mio, my Mio by Astrid Lindgren read to me as child, and (before the fantasy I think) I read some Robin Hood and Ivanhoe storys as well as The Long Ships/Red Orm. In the middle of my teens as I started to seek away from just consuming the same types of fantasystories over and over again I read a Beowolf translation on verse and Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson.
All of these I remember as good or interesting because of their historical basis and can higly recomend.
After these (and a few other in the same manner) quite many of storys I think I nowdays would regard as quite flat, Eddings, Brooks, Williams, Goodkind etc. and having very much the same consepts (a young boy/man grows as a person becaus the world is harsh on him, bo-ho. This I find very true for Harry Potter too which I read later on).
Some were of course "aimed" at beeing more humoristic (Pratchett of course, and I remember Hickman/Weis as having quite much of that to?) and I guess that if I was searching for something like that now I could still turn to them.
In others like Redwall and Empire Trilogy the milieus are so speciell I think the could be inspiering even as the storys isn't very great.
Left in my mind then as just good storys which I can long for is Katharine Kerr and Robin Hobb, but maybe this division is just someting I'v got into my mind due to when I read and what appealed especially to my taste rather than the actuall litterary quality.
For "non-fantasy-still-fictional-in-some-kind-of-medival-setting" I had Ronia the Robber's Daughter, The Brothers Lionheart and Mio, my Mio by Astrid Lindgren read to me as child, and (before the fantasy I think) I read some Robin Hood and Ivanhoe storys as well as The Long Ships/Red Orm. In the middle of my teens as I started to seek away from just consuming the same types of fantasystories over and over again I read a Beowolf translation on verse and Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson.
All of these I remember as good or interesting because of their historical basis and can higly recomend.
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My faves are:
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Chronicles of Narnia
Winning His Spurs
In Freedom's Cause
A Knight of the White Cross
The last three are by G.A. Henty, and you probably know the authors of the others.
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Chronicles of Narnia
Winning His Spurs
In Freedom's Cause
A Knight of the White Cross
The last three are by G.A. Henty, and you probably know the authors of the others.
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lotr- of course
inheritance- great fantasy novels
rangers apprentice- heroes dont always have to be big and strong
wolf of the plains- the story of Ghengis Khan
lord of the bows- the continuation of the story of Ghengis Khan
Chronicles of ancient darkness- a bit before medieval but still brilliant reads
The sillmarillion- anyone here like a challenge?
inheritance- great fantasy novels
rangers apprentice- heroes dont always have to be big and strong
wolf of the plains- the story of Ghengis Khan
lord of the bows- the continuation of the story of Ghengis Khan
Chronicles of ancient darkness- a bit before medieval but still brilliant reads
The sillmarillion- anyone here like a challenge?
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Well to me It's a Norwegian book by Iselin B. Alvestad Alanya Veien følger Hjertet (Iselin B. Alvestad Alanya The road follows the Heart).
Oh and The Kast Templar By Raymond Khoury.
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Oh and The Kast Templar By Raymond Khoury.
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Yay! I love those books!Rick-Ricks wrote:The Redwall books by Brian Jaques.
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Re: Favorite Castle Book?
I loved those books! I also read a couple of the redwall books.cnelson wrote: The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis: Must-read for any fantasy fan.
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Re: Favorite Castle Book?
Some of my favorite books are:
LOTR
Narnia
The Hobbit
Silmarillion (is it spelled correctly?)
Narn i Chín Hurin (The Children of Hurin)
Farmer Giles of Ham
Eragon
Rangers Apprentice
(books about the Nordic Mythology)
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LOTR
Narnia
The Hobbit
Silmarillion (is it spelled correctly?)
Narn i Chín Hurin (The Children of Hurin)
Farmer Giles of Ham
Eragon
Rangers Apprentice
(books about the Nordic Mythology)
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So do I! The Redwall series is my favorite by far.Lewa Rocks wrote:Yay! I love those books!Rick-Ricks wrote:The Redwall books by Brian Jaques.
I Also like:
J.R.R. Tolkein's works, though I've only read LOTR, and the Hobbit
The Castaway series by Brian Jacques is also good.
Haven't read Narnia in years, so I might read it again.
I also enjoy the Inheritance series...at least the two I've read so far...
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Re: Favorite Castle Book?
If you liked LOTR and The Hobbit, Blue Moon Knight, i think you should try reading Silmarillion and Narn i Chín Hurin too, i think theyre very good.
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