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1: Everyone who says this is a pale copy of Tolkien is absolutely right
This book was originally written as a sequel to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings novels, or so the Wikipedia page on Dennis McKiernan says. Then McKiernan could not get the rights to create a sequel, so he messed with the names of people and species and published the books anyway. It's easy to see that this is the case because the book is a completely slavish imitation of Tolkien's story and Tolkien's world, only altered in not-at-all-subtle ways that only serve to diminish the original LOTR story into a pale and unsatisfying imitation.
Don't waste your money.
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2: Fantastic!!
This series is every bit as good as Tolkien.
One of my favorite authors and stories of all time.
All you 'one star' reviewers, get off the sauce, willya? *wink*
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3: Tolkien's world and themes but . . .
Of course this series borrows heavily from Tolkien, the Author acknowledges this upfront.
I find that this series has far more warm and humanity than Tolkien has ever shown.
The more work you read from Dennis L. McKiernan, the more you appreciate his talents,
I highly recommend every book that follows these. Try not to be as blind and shallow as the "Tolkein Purists".
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4: His First
As always Dennis L. McKeirnan writes a fantastic tale. However this one is heavy based on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. So heavily in fact that at many points it seems more like blantant plagrarism.
This book is good, but it is so obviously his first attempt. The world was not completely formed and nor were the rules of the races that filled the world. His later works fully flesh out the world and people within. This book is good, but many of his others are much much better.
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5: Iron Tower Fan
I read these novels when they came out in the 80's and a decade before I ever read LOR. I found out later it was intended to be a sequel to LOR. Nevetheless, going into it without any LOR background I had a blast reading this book. So much so that I reread it again after finding out about the LOR sequel and then read the LOR books just prior to the movies coming out.
While I really enjoyed both IT and LOR, I must admit that I prefer The Iron Tower to the LOR books as there is a hell of a lot better handling of large battles.
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