Into the Forge

by Dennis L. McKiernan

Book Overview

Finally, the story of the Great War of the Ban is told! Two young wanderers are given a small copper coin by a dying human, who tells them to deliver it "East to Agron" and "warn all," but dies before... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451457005
• ISBN13: 9780451457004
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Roc
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Just Great Adventure!

Every so often, I just want to read a story of Good Vs. Evil. War, Intrigue, Hero's, Elves. And, I hate AD & D books. That is why I love McKiernan so much. Classic Fantasy written well. Every book I've read from him I've enjoyed immensely, including this series. Excellent! I couldnt rate it higher.

The tale of the Great War of the Ban!!!

As I read through the scathing reviews of this book, I couldn't help but wonder what goes through people's mind when they give a fantastic book such as this poor reviews. Dennis McKiernan is one of the greatest fantasy writers in the genre. To call his work a blatent rip-off of Tolkien is a grevious sin. It must be said that Tolkien tales urged Mr. McKiernan to get into writing in the first place, and his Iron Tower Trilogy was originally written as a sequel to Tolkien's works; however, Tolkien's Estate declined to endorse such a sequel. Before typecasting McKiernan's works as unoriginal and boring, please read more of his Mithgar story arc. He is one of the most original authors around.

Fantasy Masterpiece!!!

Although I thought this book was going to be another Tolkien ripoff, I found that the story was an original in it's own right. Also, a book can not be considered a "ripoff" whent the author admits to have gotten "ideas" from a previous author. This book did a great job of telling the tale of the war of the Ban which is what all of his books have centered around since The Iron Tower Trilogy. This Title is Mckiernan's second best novel ever...only to be beaten by part two of this Duology, Into the Fire. but that is another tale...and it IS all connected you know!

excelent!!! highly recomended to any fantacy novel reader.

i've already read it three times and plan on reading it again. i can't wait to read part 2 into the fire.