I still got my Thunder hat you filthy casual ! <| sep |> If she loved LotR I ' d recommend trying another series from the subgenre of EpicAss Fantasy . You may have already heard ofread this one , but I ' ll proceed as if you haven ' t Wheel of Time is the first one that comes to mind very epic , rich history to the world , battle between good or at least humanity plus one race of allies , which definitely isn ' t always the same thing and pure evil . There ' s some definite LotResque elements there . It ' s long as hell so it ' d last her a long time if she got into it too . I ' d just say read the first t h r e e T i meBoxedSetBooksdptelrefsr 13 ? sbooksieUTF 8 qidtelsr 13 keywordseyeoftheworld or at least the first two before deciding if you like it the first one ' s a bit slow and not really representative IMHO . Last note on WoT you ' ll hear a lot about the middlebooks sag in terms of forward movement re this series , but I ' d consider that overstated . It ' s there , but it ' s much less significant when bingereading then when you ' re waiting for the next one to be published . So that ' s my $ 0 . 02 re epic fantasy . Hope that was potentially helpful .