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Thomas Covenant
I recently saw a similar thread on this topic. How about Stephenson's Thomas Covenant series? It's very difficult for an epic fantasy series to not emulate Tolkien, but this series is very good (it has a much heavier focus on character development). It is extremely dark, however. The good guys in LOTR get away relatively unscathed by comparison.
I also always liked the Xanth series of books just for something light.
Maglor
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