post your formative fantasy novel series

artifactrix:

holagordita:

cornerof5thandvermouth:

vvarinn:

all-tsun-and-no-dere:

mikemcc:

tinandcoppermakebronze:

mine was the Elric Saga, obviously

….

Mine was, uh… *cough*wheeloftime*cough*

The Immortals by Tamora Pierce

formative?? thats tough

probably dragonlance?? i guess?? everworld i think had a larger effect on my than i realzied though

pern

song of the lioness by tamora pierce aw yeuh

Song of the Lioness, fuck yeah.

YES. SONG OF THE LIONESS. I reread that every year or so.

  1. tumbletower reblogged this from artifactrix and added:
    YES. SONG OF THE LIONESS. I reread that every year or so.
  2. artifactrix reblogged this from cryingjessepinkman and added:
    Song of the Lioness, fuck yeah.
  3. yefairefurling reblogged this from doktorwer and added:
    The Immortals series by Tamora Pierce, shortly followed by everything else Tamora Pierce, then all the Avalon books by...
  4. pluckyredhead reblogged this from theboycanthelpit and added:
    Tamora Pierce, The Song of the Lioness Quartet.
  5. isolde-and-monsters reblogged this from mothergrotesquerie and added:
    A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle was the first asides from my small collection of individual Hans Christian...
  6. mothergrotesquerie reblogged this from caffreysmythe and added:
    #this could be terrible #if anyone has actually read sea dragon heir asdkafldjflskjKLLJLASDFJSLFJOAIJFFGJVFAIEOJAGV...
  7. caffreysmythe reblogged this from mothergrotesquerie and added:
    SEA DRAGON HEIR, obviously you are not joking that was a very important book in our childhoods. I CAN’T BREATHE.
  8. azurewren reblogged this from theaudientvoid and added:
    Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce.
  9. youcannotfoolowls reblogged this from poupon and added:
    Formative fantasy/Sci-fi novels, yeah? Well, there were… a lot, to put it mildly and I’m going to talk about a few of...
  10. comradeocean reblogged this from condesces and added:
    HP obviously. Enchanted Forest, Doomspell, Witch Week (Chrestomanci, but Witch Week was the one I really latched onto),...
  11. victorially reblogged this from dontbearuiner and added:
    Terry Brooks’s Magic Kingdom of Landover, followed quickly by the Dragonlance Saga.
  12. haswar reblogged this from knightless and added:
    The Dragonriders of Pern, Liavek (City of Luck), The Death Gate Cycle and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, and a shit ton of...
  13. horrorharlot reblogged this from dontbearuiner and added:
    Chronicles of Chrestomanci. I still read them every summer. Every. Summer.
  14. bokhyllen reblogged this from alonglostletter and added:
    Narnia and the Lord of the Rings.
  15. annethecatdetective reblogged this from notcuddles and added:
    When I was little, my dad read Tolkein out loud… if I had to say where my love of fantasy came from, it’s probably...
  16. alonglostletter reblogged this from rynia and added:
    Discworld, The Nightside books by Simon R. Green, The Dark Tower series, The Pendragon Adventures, Harry Potter. Um…...
  17. shamequeen reblogged this from mercy-misrule and added:
    Enchanted Forest Chronicles...Patricia C. Wrede. I can see my omnibus edition sitting in...
  18. buckthestar reblogged this from mercy-misrule and added:
    Mine was also The Immortals by Tamora Pierce.
  19. knightless reblogged this from dana-rama and added:
    Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, and Dragonlance. I still love and read all of these....
  20. and-classics reblogged this from theboycanthelpit and added:
    Redwall, above all else. Like I can still vividly remember sobbing my heart out reading The Legend of Luke. (Planning a...
  21. whirlerdog reblogged this from baticeerr and added:
    the belgariad & the mallorean (david eddings), song of the lioness & the immortals & protector of the small (tamora...
  22. octopusowl reblogged this from poupon and added:
    The Belgariad/Malorean (David Eddings), Pern (Anne McCaffrey), Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
  23. theboycanthelpit reblogged this from frailspells and added:
    Tamora… Mercedes Lackey’s Vanyel Trilogy, 100000000%.
  24. 500fly reblogged this from basiacat and added:
    Legend of Drizzt (and all other related novels: Hunter’s Blades, Transitions, etc), Lord of the Rings
  25. dana-rama reblogged this from vanishingage and added:
    Lord of the Rings and — god help me — the first Dragonlance trilogy (aka As The Fantasy World Turns). Probably also the...
  26. stillnotjunko reblogged this from poupon and added:
    Xanth. Wizard of Oz. I didn’t read that many fantasy series when I was a kid. A lot of lone books, actually. Also I’m...
  27. innatworldsend reblogged this from mercy-misrule and added:
    Either…. Elric of Melnibone… Or The Sandman Chronicles… Possibly both…
  28. vanishingage reblogged this from missingsun and added:
    The Lord of the Rings, The Belgariad and The Mallorean, the Dragonriders of Pern (shutup, if you skipped the prologues...
  29. relvetica reblogged this from poupon and added:
    The Blue Sword/ The Hero and the Crown. I think those two books changed me on like a genetic level. The Cold Fire...
  30. missingsun reblogged this from poupon and added:
    So. Um. One of my formative fantasy novels was actually the first couple books of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R....
  31. rizzolina reblogged this from sailorwolfmoon and added:
    Harry Potter, LotR, His Dark Materials, Eragon, p. much everything by tad williams lol
  32. tiagobond reblogged this from poupon and added:
    … Oh jeez. Probably Ellen Kushner’s...Kings series or Sarah Monette’s Doctrine of...
  33. thejollity reblogged this from poupon and added:
    The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl
  34. poupon reblogged this from homofactory and added:
    I AM REWRITING THIS QUESTION TO INCLUDE SCI-FI Metaphysics for Children, Sometimes With Unicorns (Wrinkle in Time,...
  35. theotterspeaks reblogged this from hybridelectricbabies and added:
    The Dragonriders of Pern (Anne McCaffrey), The Belgariad (David Eddings), Protector of the Small (Tamora Pierce), The...
  36. spacegirlfriend reblogged this from justaguywitharrows and added:
    Kai Meyer’s Die Sieben Siegel, Kai Meyer’s Die Fließende Königin (Dark Reflections), Tamora Pierce’s Song of the...
  37. justaguywitharrows reblogged this from sailorwolfmoon and added:
    Narnia, Harry Potter, Ender’s Game, most of Diana Wynne Jones’ writing, Tithe, Garth Nix’s Abhorsen series, Bruce...
  38. dontbearuiner reblogged this from antheia and added:
    Tamora Pierce’s Alanna books, Anne McCaffery’s The Rowan/Damia books, The Mists of Avalon and Firebrand I’m sure I’ll...