I love Middle Earth and GoT! I have a GOT map book called "The Lands of Ice and Fire". It has the complete map of the known world. All maps have great detail to cities, seas, etc.
I love Middle Earth and GoT! I have a GOT map book called "The Lands of Ice and Fire". It has the complete map of the known world. All maps have great detail to cities, seas, etc.
best fantasy world?
OK, My opinion is Faerun in the R.A.Salvatore line etc. He has always been an amazingly discriptive narrarator for the fantasy world. I think I would have to give a tip of the hat to C.S. Lewis and Narnia as would most since between he and JRR Tolkein pretty much started the whole fantasy worlds.
Oh yeah, Tamriel (of the Elder Scrolls series) does have some interesting twists in traditional fantasy. I'm not too fond of the antropomorphic (?) races, though.
Besides fantasy worlds of my own for obvious reasons, I am a big fan of the Aarklash world build for the board game "Ragnarok". It's epic and poetic in the same time, mixing and revisiting numerous myths harmoniously.
In second, I would say Westeros for its characters and story mainly. The realistic side is of the world is a bit like the Hârn setting to my taste.
Quite funny because I've just finished the "Stone of Farewell" from Tad Williams.
As far as I know, sithis & norns have a japanese style, but altered by the 'immortal' point of view somehow. The Qanuc people based on inuits is quite interesting too.
I had forgotten the Farseer Trilogy ! An I agree with you, Robin Hobb is quite good to balance the familiar and the mysterious!
Arda is my favorite fantasy world, without a bloody doubt. I am a Tolkien fanatic and will forever be one.
Halo universe is also one of my favorite universes; primarily because I adore the Halo series, games and books.
I do have to give credit to the Elder Scrolls universe, since it is very cool to have a Middle-Aged theme world with multiple races.
The one universe that will always be with me (besides Halo and Arda) is the Multiverse of the Magic the Gathering books and games. It is primarily a fantasy setting in its truest sense and it does draw on many different sources for its individual planes. After all with Planeswalkers, the story itself is damn good!
World of Greyhawk
The Lands of Ice and Fire
Middle Earth
Prydain - World from LLoyd Alexander
Narnia
Narnia and Harry Potter School!!!
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."-Confucius
Old map and Historic map
My current favourite SF universe is the one developed by Dan Simmons for his Hyperion Cantos. Apparently Warner Bros are planning a film adaption of the first two books - can't wait to see the Tesla Trees in action ...
No love for the Witcherverse?
I absolutely love Sopkowski's world. It's small in scope and gritty, but so interesting.
I'm also a big fan of the settings of Wheel of Time (for its magic), Westeros, Avatar the Last Airbender (though I've only watched some of the series), The Black Company, and (of course) Middle Earth.
As you might be able to tell, I'm a little biased in favor of human-centric worlds.
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