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Top Fantasy Books - A Fan Of Fantasy

What are your all time favourite top fantasy books? I bet a lot of you will have thought Lord From the Rings immediately! With the recent success of Bet on Thrones on tv an additional series possibly on the way in addition to a movie version from the Hobbit coming our way next year it's probably fair to express that the fantasy genre is really as strong as ever. For anyone who aren't fans of the genre or possibly just passive fans then hopefully we can convert you!

The fantasy genre really started way back in Victorian times with authors such as William Morris and George MacDonald. The prosperity of fantasy books today though probably lays at the door of 1 man, J.R.R Tolkien, creator of a few of the top fantasy books for example 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.

Common sense says that Tolkien came up with the idea of Middle-Earth when sat in his backyard looking over the hills and imagining wars between different races taking place across them. It was from this imagination that certain of, otherwise the best 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, was also creating his own fantasy world known as Narnia, his books also continued to huge success with The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe becoming one of the top fantasy books of all time, not only that, additionally, it includes a few movie variations in the decades after, making the 1950's the true-birth of fantasy.

If we fast forward Six decades and enter any decent book shop the fantasy genre is most likely among the largest sections, a lot of its success must be pointed towards it's founders but to this day we have classic fantasy books being released constantly. Fans of the television series Game Of Thrones might have since gone out and bought it, maybe even the titles after in the A Song Of Ice And Fire series, one of the biggest fantasy series of all time. It is because of those current authors for example Martin and Hobb that the fantasy genre continues in such strong fashion and it's due to them we can't get bored from the fantasy genre.