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I would also like to recommend another seiries that I really enjoy. It's by Susan Cooper and the seires is entitled The Dark is Rising. Though it does have an evil dark power attempting to rule the world, it is extremely hard not to find a book that doesn't have at least a snippet of that element. Also, she takes a lot from Arthurian legend, and weaves it through her stories. Though they are generally for younger readers, I would recommend them to everyone.
The DARK IS RISING series is, indeed, excellent. I remember when it first came out in Australia, staff and students alike at my school were fighting over who got to read it. Not remotely like Tolkien, but the author knows a lot about her mythology and was really good at presenting the "mood" of Buckinghamshire, as Tolkien was at his own part of England.
Lost One, Guy Gavriel Kay is also wonderful, but his later novels are really about our world, though set in an alternative world with different names for people, places and events in our history. Again, not Tolkien in style, but good stuff in its own right.
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