What to Read After Tolkien

I was recently asked what to read after one was done reading The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. The person asking was a Catholic, and so was also curious as which works of High Fantasy, if any, were likely to be in keeping with Catholic sensibilities.

Of course, any fantasy set in anything like the real period in Europe between the reign of Constantine and the rise of Luther will be in keeping with Catholic sensibilities to the degree it reflects real history: the culture was thoroughly immersed with the Christian atmosphere. Any fantasy world with knights and castles and kings and bishops where these elements are treated authentically rather than, say, as in a Dungeons and Dragons world, should be in keeping with this atmosphere.

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