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Chargement... The Darkest Day (Iron Tower Trilogy) (original 1984; édition 1985)par Dennis L. McKiernan
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Darkest Day par Dennis L. McKiernan (1984)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Many people are extremely hateful towards this series as it is clearly a 'rip-off' of Tolkien. However, I found this series very enjoyable. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was certainly a magnificent series, but it did have many many long drawn out battle scenes. McKiernan's novels, on the other hand, are significantly less focused on battles. There's still plenty of action and battle, but I found the series to be much faster paced and attention keeping. I love McKiernan's take on Tolkien's hobbits. The Warrows are not just simple, helpless characters. They are skilled with the bow and hunting techniques. Overall, I found this series to be extremely enjoyable. I for one am a huge fan of the Iron Tower Trilogy, and the Silver Call Duology. This concludes the Iron Tower trilogy, which parallels the LOTR trilogy quite closely. The plot of the final book is similar in overall plot to Return of the King, though different in details. The whole idea of this series was a return to Tolkien style fantasy, which it does quite well. This is worth reading if you enjoy that type of fantasy writing. This trilogy bears about the same resemblance to the Lord of the Rings that a wad of gum on the underside of a seat does to a fresh stick of Wrigley's Doublemint. A lot of the material is similar to that of the source, but the freshness and flavour is not there. The cover art, on the other hand, is outstanding and worth keeping the book for. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieMithgar (3) Mithgar Chronology (11) Appartient à la série éditorialeKnaur Taschenbuch (70246) Est contenu dans
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HTML: It is the time foretold, when the Dark Liege Gyphon will return from exile to subdue all creation to his vile domination. In the Iron Tower, Modru works his magics to summon his implacable lord. And across Mithgar, the warriors of the kight are massing for their final assault on the Powers of Dark. Men, Elves, Dwarves and doughty warrows, their state is desperate but their courage is high. For if they fail, there comes the unending Darkest Day. If they succeed, all will see the dawn of a New Age of legend and glory..... .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Maybe I was supposed to read it more like The Silmarillion than Lord of the Rings, but I don't think that would have helped. ( )