You liked the Lord of the Rings, you wanted more, you ended up here. Blatant Tolkien reboot, and, I mean, I don't even like Tolkien all that much, though at least he was a kind of innovator. Way more derivative than Robert Jordan (and I only made it half way through Wheel of Time). At least it felt appropriately "epic", even in a single volume, so I was pretty pleased with it at the time (ie 7th grade, I think).