The best fantasy books completely immerse you in magical worlds filled with magic and magic. Many works became so popular that they were filmed.
Tolkien's magical worlds
John Tolkien's books became popular just a few years ago, thanks to the films of Peter Jackson that were released on them. But they were written much earlier - at the beginning of the 20th century. The Hobbit, or There and Back again and the Lord of the Rings trilogy are rightfully considered classics of fantasy. Tolkien became one of the first writers to create fairy tales of elves and gnomes for adults. Many of Tolkien's motives have been used in books by other authors, and his descriptions of elves, their names and language are still considered classics. The writer managed to create a magical world, providing it with a detailed description, chronology, maps and a calendar. Another of Tolkien's interesting achievements is the creation of several fully-fledged artificial languages.
When creating the Elvish language, Tolkien was helped by his erudition - he was more or less familiar with 20 foreign languages.
Fantasy Terry Pratchett
The Discworld series of books by Terry Pratchett opens the genre of humorous fiction. An unusual planet, located somewhere in the distant end of the universe, is completely unlike other celestial bodies. As in ancient myths, it is a plane resting on the backs of 4 elephants, which, in turn, stand on the shell of the Great Turtle. Because of this, other physical features of the planet are directly opposite to the existing ones. For example, a rainbow here consists of 8 colors, and the light moves very slowly. Magicians and wizards, gnomes and elves, vampires and werewolves, who constantly find themselves in various comic situations, live in this unusual world.
The Terry Pratchett series was written as a satire on the low-grade fantasy that emerged, playing on many of the literary clichés of science fiction.
Christopher Paolini is the youngest best-selling author
Christopher Paolini's tetralogy "Legacy" has been recognized as one of the most outstanding fantasy cycles in the world. Paolini wrote his first book in the Eragon series at the age of 15. She talked about the magical world of the country of Alagaësia, where magic rules. The protagonist is a teenager named Eragon, a descendant of an ancient race of dragon riders. The first book was published by the Paolini family and distributed in schools. There she was noticed by the writer Karl Hiasen, who helped the young author to become famous. The tetralogy received worldwide recognition, and Eragon gained a lot of fans of all ages. Paolini himself entered the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest author to sell a record number of his books.
