I love Lord of The Rings. It really is a classic, awesome and epic and beautiful. Hell, I actually think Tom Bombadil was awesome, but that’s another story.
Or Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. A fantasy road movie, two guys getting into crazy trouble and magic kingdoms underground.
How about Elric? A buddy story gone terribly wrong among battling gods and falling kingdoms. Also, hey, god of Jesters.
But what doesn’t feel like fantasy literature is fantasy games. I don’t say this to diss CRPG fantasy games. I love a lot of them, I played the first Wizardry, I know Demon’s Winter is one of the most unappreciated fantasy games of the 80’s. I enjoyed a lot of the Atelier series. I played a lot of Final Fantasy. I adore Dragon Quest IX. It’s just they don’t always feel like the epic literature that inspired them or the genre.