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Top Fantasy Books - Keen on Fantasy
What exactly are your in history favourite top fantasy books? I bet a lot of you will have thought Lord Of The Rings immediately! With the recent success of Bet on Thrones on tv an additional series possibly in route as well as a movie version of The Hobbit coming our way the coming year it's probably fair to say the fantasy genre is really as strong as always. For those of you who aren't fans from the genre or maybe just passive fans hopefully we can convert you!
The fantasy genre really started long ago in Victorian times with authors such as William Morris and George MacDonald. The success of fantasy books today though probably lays at the door of 1 man, J.R.R Tolkien, creator of some of the top fantasy books for example Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. It was Tolkien who had been the first to really create a whole world to base his books in, his world as many know was Middle-Earth.
It has been said that Tolkien came up with the idea of Middle-Earth when sat in the back garden overlooking the hills and imagining wars between different races happening across them. It was out of this imagination that certain of, otherwise the best book trilogy's ever were created.
Simultaneously as Tolkien was creating Middle-Earth a great friend of his, C.S. Lewis, seemed to be creating his own fantasy world known as Narnia, his books also continued to huge success using the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe becoming one of the top fantasy books of all time, not just that, additionally, it has a few movie variations within the decades after, making the 1950's the true-birth of fantasy.
If we go forward 60 years and walk into any decent book shop the fantasy genre is probably one of the largest sections, much of its success should be pointed towards it's founders but even today we've classic fantasy books coming out all the time. Fans from the television series Bet on Thrones might have since gone out and bought it, possibly even the titles after within the An audio lesson Of Ice And Fire series, one of the greatest fantasy series of in history. It is because of those current authors for example Martin and Hobb that the fantasy genre continues in such strong fashion and it's because of them we will never get bored from the fantasy genre.
