Once Upon A Winter's Night - A fairy tale adaptation, with some fairly explicit sex, a Purity Sue and much meanderings around in Faery.Tolkien's estate, McKiernan turned it into a purely derivative work. The Silver Call Duology - Originally written as a sequel to Lord of the Rings,but when it was shot down by J.R.R.Voyage of the Fox Rider - In which elves, dwarves, faeries and a wizard sail around doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.The Iron Tower Trilogy - Think Lord of the Rings, but whinier and weirder and with more crying.Also, the plague may break out at any random time. Into the Fire - Apparently war is long, boring, and repetitive.Into The Forge - A halfling goes across the world with a tiny round object that may or may not be able to save the world.Hel's Crucible Duology -No, that is not a typo.

The Dragonstone - Some incredibly tiny elf chick foresees that she has to get a bunch of cliched people/objects together or the world is going to end.

Plus the bad guy is carved out of Cheez.Īnyway, he wrote some actual original stories after that, but whatever. and then wrote a prequel trilogy with the same basic plot but a few new details, like a sugary princess and a COMET OF DEATH. Shockity-shock-shocks, you can't actually publish a literal sequel because the Tolkien estate will shut you down so fast your head spins, so he changed the names and a few details. Okay, backstory: Dennis McKiernan apparently began writing when he was in a bad motorcycle crash and was immobilized for some months, so he wrote a sequel to Lord of the Rings. In a world whose name means 'middle world.' But Kraggen Cor is now home to all creatures of evil that yet remain in Mithgar.Dennis McKiernan - The Lord of the Seeing Crystal, um, Magic Arrow, uh, oh forget it.Ī band of tiny but strong halflings from an idyllic little land join up with a human king-in-waiting, an elf archer and a doughty axe-swinging dwarf who are trying to stop the Evil Dark Lord from taking over the world and enslaving or killing everybody. They are pledged to lead the way along the almost forgotten path to Kraggen Cor, legendary realm under the Mountain. And thus it is the Peregrin Fairhill and Cotton Buckleburr, keepers of the Silver Horn, find themselves marching with the Dwarf King at the head of a mighty army. Now the first book of The Silver Call Duology continues the tale with a call to war! More than two hundred years after the Dark Lord’s defeat by the brave alliance of Warrow, human, Dwarf and Elf, evil is again stirring, and man and Dwarf must turn to the small but stalwart Warrows for aid.

McKiernan’s world that never was has taken its place beside J R R Tolkien’s Middle Earth and Ursula K Le Guin’s Earthsea as a special realm of adventure and magic with the best selling Iron Tower Trilogy.

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