![]() He used to have a family, but they left him when he discovered he is afflicted with leprosy. While Lord Foul’s Bane has many standard, even trite, elements of the fantasy genre, it turns the system on its head by providing you with a rather agonizing protagonist. Main character is a bitter, bitter leper who commits rape within hours of arriving to this wondrous fantasy land? Er… … Check? But is Lord Foul’s Bane just another epic fantasy? Let’s see…īearded, wizardly men with staves that shoot fire? Check. This is the year of Star Wars, and a decade following the preeminence of Lord of the Rings, so another epic fantasy on the book charts is no surprise. ![]() Donaldson’s series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever was released way back in 1977. ![]() ![]() Lord Foul’s Bane, first book of Stephen R. ![]()
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