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Top Fantasy Books - Keen on Fantasy

What are your all time 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 on the way as well as a movie version of The Hobbit coming our way the coming year it's probably fair to express that the fantasy genre is as strong as ever. For those of you who aren't fans from the genre or possibly just passive fans then hopefully we are able to convert you!

The fantasy genre really started long ago in Victorian times with authors for example William Morris and George MacDonald. The success of fantasy books today though probably lays at the door of one man, J.R.R Tolkien, creator of a few of the top fantasy books such as Lord From the Rings, The Hobbit and also 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 created the idea of Middle-Earth when sat in the backyard looking over the hills and imagining wars between different races happening across them. It was from this imagination that one of, if not the greatest book trilogy's ever are intended.

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At the same time as Tolkien was creating Middle-Earth a great friend of his, C.S. Lewis, seemed to be creating their own fantasy world referred to as Narnia, his books also continued to huge success using the Lion, The Witch and also the Wardrobe becoming one of the top fantasy books of all time, not just that, it also has a few movie variations within the decades after, making the 1950's the true-birth of fantasy.

If we fast forward Six decades and enter any decent book store the fantasy genre is most likely among the largest sections, a lot of its success should be pointed towards it's founders but even today we have classic fantasy books coming out constantly. Fans from the television series Bet on Thrones may have since gone out and bought it, possibly even the titles after within the A Song Of Ice And Fire series, one of the biggest fantasy series of in history. It is because of these current authors such as Martin and Hobb the fantasy genre continues in such strong fashion and it is because of them we can't get bored of the fantasy genre.