It’s definitely a different feel when it comes to fantasy. It starts off very simple and small scale but it definitely gets massive in scope later. I honestly need to re-read them because it’s probably been over a decade for me now.
And I never even got to those. I know he plans on doing yet another Mistborn series set further in the future, which will be extremely interesting.
Stormlight Archives is definitely the best of Sandersons series, but fair warning is that it’s a hefty read. Well worth it though, especially the latest one.
In Rothfuss’s defense, he’d basically finished Doors of Stone before he realized that it just wasn’t good enough and started from scratch. I just wish he wasn’t married to the idea of a trilogy and Doors of Stone being about the same page count as Wise Mans Fear, since it feels like he only just got the story properly set up around the end of Wise Mans Fear.
It’s going to be a tall order to wrap everything up in a satisfactory way with the page count he’s working with. Both the main villain and protagonist of Rhythm of War are incredibly compelling characters.
The setting and characters is absolutely fascinating, but it’s incredibly difficult to follow. Last time I attempted the series I think I got to the 6th or 7th book and gave up and when I tried starting from where I left off I’d completely forgotten everything that has happened.
Sometimes it feels like you’re reading completely different books that are only tied together by some thin lines of exposition.
Seriously? Registered users is all the people that have ever had an account. To put it in perspective WOW has approximately 114 million.
Now the actually daily players number is a lot lower and a lot closer wow has 3.5 million compared to FF 2.5 million so they’re almost equal in that stance.
…anyone ever step into satirical fantasy by the master Sir Terry Pratchett?
Because the writing for WoW is crap and derivative. It lacks a coherent world and history, for one thing. The background is elements of better stories jammed together.
That’s what I meant, lol. My bad. But still it was terrible.
I’ve read all of the Malazan books by both Erickson and Esslemont. I think it took me 4 or 5 years to get through them all (I read other books too of course lol).
It’s an amazing series overall but boy… it is tough to keep it all straight. Malazan is definitely “hard mode” fantasy but well worth the effort.
Iirc, they were supposed to come back and have a fight or something in the Shire (in the book, my memory if foggy) and use their experience to win. In the movie, it’s like…yep, back to gardening and let’s get on a boat my PTSD is getting bad and I’d rather chum with this elven lady who is 10,000 years old.
In 1950 there weren’t many modern-fantasy genre books back there, and LOTR books were good enough to stand out. Probably the first fantasy book series to get world-wide notice.
IMO the writing is above-average at best but It was among the first, so It got popular, just like the first computer.
Because it doesn’t have the depth of LOTR.
And your hippy parents don’t know what WoW is, even though they have Hobbit tattoos.
Plus, the movies were much better.
But mostly, depth. Tolkien spent decades working on LoTR and Middle Earth before showing just a glimpse of what he had concocted up in the LoTR trilogy.
That depth and detail comes out in the storytelling.
Crazy eyed Sam Jackson
Say that again !
j/k to each their own
LOTR was a movie first then a game , I believe
When you make a movie about it your marketing is pretty much done and you get a profit from box offices sales as well.
I’m honestly starting to wonder about some of you.
See! What did I tell you! Lol 🤦
If you want to go crazy be my guest 
The answer is pretty simple on why; Because Worgens don’t have tails… yet!
Because Lord of the Rings was groundbreaking. The ideas it presented with the Tolkien twist were the inspiration for a lot of modern fantasy. That’s what makes it so special and renowned.
WoW is just one of those things inspired by it.
Well, they had Gilgamesh, Gulliver’s travels, Alice in Wonderland, King Arthur, and Prose Edda. But, all of them lacked “epicness” in the sense of LOTR.
It’s as if Tokein had an MMO in his mind writing it. Lots of perspectives told across a huge world and converging on huge events. That’s what’s captivating for me anyhow.
That is why Blizzard and WoW lost their unique originality that they had as a video game and it was only a reference that they were not considered a misused plagiarism.
As it was from N’zoth ending, it shows that these latest expansions lost their originality to other causes that had nothing to do with the game, that is why each is further from being better than the book itself, and not the movie.
Because LOTR is a work of Literature, WoW is a silly videogame.