The Silver Call (Mithgar) (Paperback)

by Dennis L. McKiernan (Author) "Hoy there, Mister Perry!..." (more)
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Product Description
Bestselling author Dennis L. McKiernan's mythical novels of Mithgar are among the most cherished stories in the pantheon of fantasy fiction. The Silver Call collects two of the earlier novels-Trek to Kraggen-Cor and The Brega Path-in one volume for the very first time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Roc (November 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451458613
• ISBN-13: 978-0451458612
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #477,732 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Its still fun, July 7, 2004

By	A. Lee Lang (Laramie, WY, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After reading all of the other reviews, I had to chime in. I have read both the LOTR and these books. Clearly, these books use the now classic "Tolkien" recipe for fantasy. But when all was said and done, these books were still fun reading. Are these books as complex as LOTR? No! But they were fun reading. Certainly, any person that reads Fantasy must read Tolkien. And once you read Tolkien you will find that NO other books compare... but that does not mean all other books suck.

At the end, I say if you are a "Tolkien Snob" and have read LOTR dozens of times, then don't read this.. it will only make you angry. On the other hand, if you read for fun and enjoy fantasy, I would say give it a whirl... you will most likely enjoy it.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Open Minded, October 9, 2002

By	Chris Mettier (Sonoma County, CA USA) - See all my reviews

If you are so obsessed with Tolkien that you find yourself unable to enjoy anything similar to his concepts then don't bother reading these books. They are well written and entertaining. I highly recommend them to anyone who is not so blind and foolish as to be unappreciative of a creative work simply because it is inspired by another creative work. These other reviews remind me of people who refuse to drive any car which is not made by their specific favorite company.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not stolen...Intended as a sequel, January 6, 2007

By	Matthew G. Barcomb (Omaha, NE) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I first posted this as a reply to comment, but realized people had to click on the comment of the review to see what I wrote, and then I found too many more reviews that were bashing this series saying it was stolen from Tolkien.

When I first started reading this, I was very struck by the so-many, obvious Tolkien-isms that, at first, I thought were "stolen". So I did what I *thought* most educated readers would do, which was research the author and publisher.

Come to find out that this was originally intended to be a sequel to Lord of the Rings, but keepers of LOTR's copyrights did not want to allow McKiernan's publisher (Doubleday) the permission to publish an actual sequel to LOTR. So Doubleday asked him to restate his story in a similar-yet-different-enough fantasy realm as to not infringe on copyrights. They then asked him to write a prequel to support his would-be LOTR sequel.

I found the story much more fun to read after I knew this, drawing the parallels from LOTR and realizing that the author was doing what many fans had wished for...more LOTR! Unfortunately Tolkien won't be writing anyhow as being dead tends to preclude things like that, and the current holders of the LOTR copyrights were more interested in money rather than the interests of the fan-base.

Good series, good read...have fun!