Are there any book similar to LOTR?

Question

Besides The Hobbit book. Not from the same author but the genre and plot story is similar to LOTR.

Answer 1

The Time-Master trilogy By Louise Cooper.(review from Amazon)The books are 'The Initiate',The Outcast and The Master.It tells the story of Tarod a fascinating anti-hero, evolving throughout the series from a loyal disciple of Order to the God of Chaos that is his true heritage, with the repeated examination of his humanity thrown into the mix.

I liked the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey.The books I liked in the series are Exile's honor,Exile's valor and Take a thief.

The review given below is about Exile's honor.
Valdemar and Karse have long been enemies. The Karse have made an art of it, sending bandits to plunder Valdemar, having their priests train the people to believe that anyone with a Herald's Gift is a demon in need of death. Alberich of Karse, newly-made captain and gifted with a handsome white stallion, has never formally committed himself to battle with his hereditary enemy. He has the gift of foresight, which he has long tried long to hide, but cannot when he sees that a village is about to be attacked and destroyed. He rallies his men, and saves the lives of many, only to forfeit his own. Two men who wanted his commission take advantage of the situation and have a Priest condemn him as a demon. They throw him in a small barn, planning to burn him to death. His white stallion charges in to save him, but he is still badly burned. This stallion, a Companion named Kantor takes him to Valdemar, where he is healed... only to find himself facing a whole new set of problems.

Mercedes Lackey's Take a Thief is the tale of Skif, a young orphan reminiscent of Oliver Twist, making his way in the knock-and-tumble neighborhood between two of Haven's outermost walls. Skif is intelligent, good-hearted and creative enough to forage up three meals a day in a place where food is scarce and kindness almost unheard of. After a chain of events leave him homeless, Skif lands in the lair of Bazie, an Faginish ex-mercenary who trains thieves...until he is "Chosen" by one of Valdemar's magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen.

Allan Cole wrote the Timura triology.(review from Amazon)
Warrior Iraj Protarus was a boyhood friend of Safar Timura, who, raised to be a potter, turned out to have an at first unsuspected talent for sorcery. The visions they share and the battles they fight side by side as they set off on a journey impeded by intrigue, enemies, plots, betrayals, adventures, and all the other trappings of the fantasy quest are the basic stuff of the book. Eventually, Iraj has a throne and Safar is his high magician, but realistically, the tale cannot end there, for the friends have hardly seen the last of the host of enemies who customarily badger the possessors of power.

Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, Book 1) by Jim Butcher.(From Publishers Weekly)At the start of Butcher's absorbing fantasy, the first in a new series, the barbarians are at the gates of the land of Alera, which has a distinct flavor of the Roman Empire (its ruler is named Quintus Sextus and its soldiers are organized in legions). Fortunately, Alera has magical defenses, involving the furies or elementals of water, earth, air, fire and metal, that protect against foes both internal and external. Amara, a young female spy, and her companion, Odiana, go into some of the land's remoter territories to discover if military commander Atticus Quentin is a traitor—another classic trope from ancient Rome. She encounters a troubled young man, Tavi, who has hitherto been concerned mostly with the vividly depicted predatory "herdbanes" that threaten his sheep.Thinking that Amara is an escaping slave, Tavi decides to help her and is immediately sucked in over his head into a morass of intrigues, military, magical and otherwise.Warning:A character gets raped.

Also check out Belgariad book series by David Eddings.

Also check out the Amber book series beginning with Nine princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters - vampires,werewolves,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Answer 2

The Shannara series by Terry Brooks is very similar to LOTR, particularly the first books "The Sword of Shannara" and it was actually criticized for having a similar plot to LOTR. The books in the Shannara trilogy are:

The Sword of Shannara
The Elfstones of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara

and there are 6 or 7 other sequels but aren't as good as the first 3, and one of these sequels "Magic Kingdom for Sale : Sold!" is going to be made into a movie.

Answer 3

The Chronicles of Narnia books each have the quest motif like LOTR.

If you're looking for a series of books, there is the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland (The Seeing-Stone, At the Crossing-Places, and King of the Middle March). These books show the story of King Arthur through the eyes of a boy in the Middle Ages who shares the name of the legendary king.

Answer 4

LOTR covers so many things, almost any fantasy book would cover something like that. I remember hearing of some book that's like LOTR, but it's about the elves in the middle earth, and not about the quest of the ring going on at the same time. It sounded interesting.

Answer 5

There are several series of fantasy novels similar to LOTR in one fashion or another. The most epic is probably the Wheel of Time series, another being the Shannara legends (there are several series set in the same world but not all directly connected). It has been said that LOTR has a thousand imitators.

Answer 6

There are many books that are quite similar to the LOTR series, but the one that I find the most alike would be the Sword of Shannara series. It has many more books in its series, and follows a similar story line. Instead of a great and powerful ring, it is about a sword. (in the Sword of Shannara.) In the Elfstones of Shannara it is about these powerful stones, and also I think it has something to do with a book with evil curses or something.

Answer 7

The Fionavar Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay has been widely compared to LOTR. Tolkien is one of his strongest inspirations, and you can really tell in the way he writes... The first book in the trilogy is titled The Summer Tree. I generally have better luck finding this series at used bookstores than I do at traditional bookstores.

Answer 8

There's a lot of fantasy books like Lord of the Rings. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World is the first book) Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (A Game of Thrones) Emberverse by SM Striling (Dies the Fire) Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donalson (Lord Foul's Bane) The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind (Wizard's First Rule) The Dark Tower by Stephen King (The Gunslinger) That's only a few.

Answer 9

The sword of Shinara, The Elf Stones of Shinara. There is in fact a whole series of shinara books and they are pretty well written. I am not 100% about the spelling of Shinara anymore but that is good enough for a start

Answer 10

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. It's a "young adult" series, but it's really good.

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind

The Dragon prince, Dragon Star, and Exiles series, all by Melanie Rawn

Answer 11

Do you mean OTHEr than the hobbit and the Silmarillion?

If so, there are a group of books called Dragonlance, or the dragonlance chronicles... its more like D&D, but similar in ways to TLOTR.