I read these books when I was a child and I fell in love with them. I also read Lord of the Rings and loved them as well.To all the people who complain that these are knock-offs, read the pre-view. The author talks about how much he loved The Lord of the Rings and how he kept looking for more books like them and couldn't find any and so he decided to write these stories.It is more like a tribute and a compliment, then anything else.