The Lord of the Rings

If you like Middle Earth, you might like to try the following titles.

Other titles by J R R Tolkien

The Silmarillion

The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part.

The Hobbit; or There and Back again

The story of Bilbo Baggins (uncle of Frodo). Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure hunting expedition on which he encounters ruthless trolls, beastly orcs, gigantic spiders, and hungry wolves and the fearsome dragon Smaug.

If you want to read the Anglo-Saxon and Norse myths and sagas which J.R.R. Tolkien was interested in, search the catalogue for Norse mythology. Beowulf is a famous poem which tells of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes. You may also be interested in books about the mythical hero King Arthur.

Authors and titles to try

Piers Anthony

Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney

Bored of the rings: a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings

Kristen Britain

Green Rider

Terry Brooks

The Shannara series
Heritage of Shannara
The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara

Hugh Cook (NZ)

Chronicles of an age of darkness

Stephen Donaldson

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever

David Eddings

The Belgariad series

Kate Elliott

David Farland

The Runelords series

Neil Gaiman

Stardust

William Goldman

The Princess Bride

Terry Goodkind

Sword of truth series

Barbara Hambly

Elizabeth Haydon

The Rhapsody trilogy

Robin Hobb

Brian Jacques

Redwall series

Robert Jordan

Wheel of time series

Guy Gavriel Kay

The Fionavar Tapestry

Katharine Kerr

The Deverry saga

Katherine Kurtz

Mercedes Lackey

Tanith Lee

C. S. Lewis

Chronicles of Narnia

Anne McCaffrey

Chronicles of Pern

Patricia McKillip

George R. R. Martin

Song of Ice and Fire series

L. E. Modesitt

Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials trilogy

Michael Scott Rohan

Winter of the World series

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Death Gate Cycle

Tad Williams

Roger Zelazny

Marion Zimmer Bradley

For kids

Try our fantasy related lists produced by the library for kids such as the Fantasy Readers' Maze and If you like Harry Potter guides.