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David McK (3600 KP) rated Dragons of Autumn Twilight: Chronicles, Volume One (Dragonlance Chronicles Book 1) in Books

Aug 12, 2020  
Dragons of Autumn Twilight: Chronicles, Volume One (Dragonlance Chronicles Book 1)
Dragons of Autumn Twilight: Chronicles, Volume One (Dragonlance Chronicles Book 1)
Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis | 1984 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
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I think I might have first read this in the mid to late 90s. Anyway, there or thereabouts. Definitely before the resurgence of 'classic' fantasy brought about by the Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) movies of the early 21st century.

I recently decided to give it a re-read (in 2020). What is now clear(er) to me than to the just-becoming-a-teenager I was on my first read is just how heavily indebted this is to JRR Tolkien, and just how much it reads like someone-decided-to-play-a-game-of-D&D-and-write-down-what-their-characters-did.

That latter probably shouldn't come as a surprise, given that one of the authors of this actually helped design that game.

Here, in the first of the 'core' Dragonlance novels, we have your standard archetypes: Halfling (Kender), Warrior, Knight, Elf, Half-Elf, Wizard, Barbarian all going off on what becomes various quests that (surprise surprise!) involve delving in dungeons and various sundry other enclosed spaces ...

I'll probably re-read the sequels, just because.