What Next To Read . . .?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Mansun

Is't this Harry Potter chap just a rip-off of Frodo Baggins? I would have thought a lawsuit for copyright infringements could be possible?

You can hold whatever opinion you wish, but let me put it this way: in that case, Aragorn, Superman and Odysseus and about a half million of others are also the same persons.

Enough of that. Concerning other books that could be suggested, in the discussion on another thread there was magical realism mentioned. This reminded me that I could add I liked very much Chingiz Aitmatov. I read The White Ship; Farewell, Gulsary; The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, and one more, I can't remember that now. It is very nice and sometimes very sad, and generally very, very emotional; along with interesting philosophical/ethical background. It has its own magic not unlike that of Tolkien, I daresay, though it is more realistic - in every aspect of the word (not just that the stories are from our, and not fictional world, although technically each world in a book is fictional) - but fantastic at the same time, and also more sad than Tolkien. But the magic similar to Tolkien is, I believe, also in this sadness - it has something close to the departure of the Elves and the stories of Arda Marred in it.