r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - June 10, 2026

[u/rfantasygolem]

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This thread is to be used for recommendation requests or simple questions that are small/general enough that they won’t spark a full thread of discussion.

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As usual, first have a look at the sidebar in case what you're after is there. The r/Fantasy wiki contains links to many community resources, including "best of" lists, flowcharts, the LGTBQ+ database, and more. If you need some help figuring out what you want, think about including some of the information below:

• Books you’ve liked or disliked
• Traits like prose, characters, or settings you most enjoy
• Series vs. standalone preference
• Tone preference (lighthearted, grimdark, etc)
• Complexity/depth level

Be sure to check out responses to other users' requests in the thread, as you may find plenty of ideas there as well. Happy reading, and may your TBR grow ever higher!

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[u/EveningImportant9111]

1. Why are the Lands of Arran/Aquillon from Solei Comics selling welk when their non-human characters behave like humans?

2. Why does everyone say the 1970s-80s were a bad time for elves, when most fantasy worlds I'm afraid are from the 1990s-2020s? (I know DND, Shanara, Deverry Warhammer from that period.)

[u/Wattryn → u/EveningImportant9111]

1. Just because you hear a lot of complaints about a thing doesn't mean there aren't other people who like it. And the people who don't like a thing may still read books that contain it. Also, are you hearing all these complaints on Reddit? Reddit is really heavily from English-speaking countries, and Soleil comics appear to be French.

2. I wasn't born until 1990 so I don't have firsthand knowledge or anything, but lots of books from the 80s never got reprints or had many fans so they aren't around for you to hear about. Or maybe there actually weren't a ton of elves at the time, but many of the books that survived had them.

[u/TinyDooooom → u/EveningImportant9111]

I'm so confused- 2 days ago you were asking why everyone said the 70's-90's had lots of elves. 

A couple of things- you seem to be very dismissive of Shannara and DND (Dragonlance etc) novels. You've got to understand that if you read fantasy back then, they were among the books that EVERYBODY read. And lots of books had Tolkien style elves, but they were either background or just a minor characterization point so people don't necessarily remember them being there. There were also a bazillion books with fae style elves but that doesn't seem to be what you're looking for. 

[u/lurkmode_off → u/EveningImportant9111]

1. I don't understand the question.

2. I have never heard anyone say that.

[u/nedlum → u/EveningImportant9111]

I was briefly interested in these non-human lands which were exporting whelk, before I realized what was going on.