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We're super excited to share this episode with you, our second Midweek Special where we stray from our regular book series content and dive into fantasy fiction in some completely different way. Zach came up with the idea of adapting a fantasy draft (as in fantasy football) to assembling the best possible fellowship of adventurers. We collaborated with three other fantasy literature podcasters, guests from Fantology, A Hero's Journey, and Inking Out Loud podcasts, to participate in this Fantasy Fellowship Draft. We took turns, one round at a time, drafting five unique characters from across the spectrum of fantasy literature. It was a blast, so much fun - and we think you'll enjoy listening. Will you agree with the fellowship that wins the draft, the one voted best of all? LAFO (Listen And Find Out!) Obviously, this unique episode is FULL of spoilers from many different fantasy series. You'll enjoy it best if you are familiar with, perhaps even read, many of the series we drafted from, but likely as not you haven't read them all. You may hear just enough by listening to add some new books/authors to your TBR (To Be Read) list. In general we focus on specific characters and their traits, why we are drafting each selection, and we don't completely spoil the books they come from - but we definitely spoil some more than others! Just be prepared. In case you REALLY don't want any spoilers, we note the name, series, and author when we make the pick, before then discussing. If you don't want to know too much, just try to skip ahead a bit... Here is a list of the fantasy sources from which we drafted, listed alphabetically by author's last name. Not WHO we drafted, just what literature, to give you an idea of what all gets talked about. Some great stories! THE FIRST LAW - Joe Abercrombie THE DRESDEN FILES - Jim Butcher MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN - Steven Erikson THE WHEEL OF TIME - Robert Jordan (completed by Brandon Sanderson) GENTLEMAN BASTARD - Scott Lynch THE OLD KINGDOM TRILOGY - Garth Nix THE SCHOLOMANCE (only one book so far - A DEADLY EDUCATION) - Naomi Novik THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE - Patrick Rothfuss MISTBORN - Brandon Sanderson THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE - Brandon Sanderson WARBREAKER - Brandon Sanderson THE WITCHER - Andrzej Sapkowski THE ACTS OF CAINE - Matthew Stover THE BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY - Jonathan Stroud NIGHT ANGEL - Brent Weeks THE BURNING - Evan Winter and the following two books of Middle Earth: THE HOBBIT - J. R. R. Tolkien THE SILMARILLION - J. R. R. Tolkien And, here are links to the podcasts of our guests. We think you may enjoy their shows also! Fantology: https://www.fantologybooks.com A Hero's Journey: https://anchor.fm/AHero%27sJourney Inking Out Loud: https://www.iolpodcast.com We hope you'll subscribe to this podcast. Give us a rating and review wherever you listen. Want to share your thoughts on this episode? Did we fail to draft a key adventurer? Do you think you could have assembled a better company? Email us at FantasyForTheAges@gmail.com. Or hit us up on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FantasyForTheAges Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fantasy4theAges Instagram: fantasy_for_the_ages Best of all, here is an Invite Link to our Discord server. Hope to interact with you there: https://discord.gg/jMWyVJ6qKk Appreciate our work enough to want to help? Support us on Patreon. This comes with great extra patron benefits! Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/FantasyForTheAges