Trek To Kraggen-Cor

Many people are extremely hateful towards this series as it is clearly a 'rip-off' of Tolkien. However, I found this series very enjoyable. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was certainly a magnificent series, but it did have many many long drawn out battle scenes. McKiernan's novels, on the other hand, a......more

2/5 Ok this is the biggest crime yet by McKiernan. After some questionable choices by the author in his Iron Tower trilogy, which was a riff on the LOTR trilogy, he sticks the landing and made a different and interesting trilogy that I liked. This here is so blatantly a Hobbit ripoff it’s insane. He no......more

I might have enjoyed this if I read it in the early '80s. Probably not though - as it is such a blatant rip-off of Tolkien. It's almost the same story, and in the depths of trying to be the same story, it's got a zillion names, little people, everyone loves to eat and tell tales, and blah blah blah.......more

This is pretty blatantly Lord of the Rings fanfic with the serial numbers barely filed off. Following the destruction of not-Sauron a few centuries ago, the Dwarves now wish to reclaim their homeland of not-Moria. Aided by a Warror (read: totally not a hobbit, guys, really) named Peregrin (yes, real......more

Ever wonder what Tolkien's dwarves would have done with Moria now that the balrog was killed. McKiernan's dwarves go back to reclaim their lost home. I love dwarves, I love fantasy so this story has it all for me. Top honors, highly recommended......more