What is the best fantasy series (books)

Although closely related, I do not mean sci-fi. No Star Wars, Star Trek etc. etc. Is it Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit (soon to be a live action movie), Forgotten Realms (my fave), Dragonlance, The Twins trilogy, Otherland, others? What is your fave?

Possibly The Dark Tower or A Song of Ice & Fire.

I've always felt the LOTR movies were more entertaining than the books.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhazred_(novel)

the nightwatch books. nightwatch, daywatch, and twilightwatch are all i remember but there is one more. all are soooooo good.

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Any novel by tolkien and the Red Wall series.

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The Dark Tower (Long, but very good) or Lord of the Rings.

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I started reading night-watch like the first few chapters and then watched the movie... Biggest mistake of my life... still plan on reading the book once the memory of the movie fades away.

it's a tie between Robert E. Howard's Chronicles of Conan and Tolkein's LoTRs. Howard is more entertaining, but Tolkein is more subtle.

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I like A Song of Ice and Fire. Only on the 3rd book though.

Sword of Truth series, althought there are some striking similiarities with the Lord of the Rings.JustPlainLucas

Artemis Fowl is my favorite and possibly one of the most underrated fantasy series out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_in_the_Shadows
This book is Fantastic too, its written by David Gemmel, I didnt read the two books preceding this one telling the main characters storybut it didnt matter, it was still an epic story and it gave you enough information to where you still understood.
I actually didnt know till now that there were books telling of the characters past, i must check them out =O

Harry Potter.. duh!aka_aj03

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I have read only the series of The Last Rune.

Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, LotR (do i need to mention the authors name?), Forgotten Realms novels by a variety of authors, Dragonlance.. not trying to flame the fans but the Inheritance Cycle is now horrendously overrated in my opinion : /