Star Trek - Captain's Table :: Scifi and Fantasy :: General Fantasy :: Legend of Drizzt Author Topic: Legend of Drizzt (Read 227 times) Dax the Dabo girl member is offline Joined: Dec 2001 Gender: Female Posts: 330 Legend of Drizzt « Thread Started on Aug 19, 2009, 9:39pm » Has anyone read this series? A friend recommended the dark elf trilogy and I can't stop reading R.A. Salvatore's books now! I highly recommend them if anyone is looking for an awesome fantasy series. I've read about 20 books centered around the various characters - all excellent! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged ymmij Rear Admiral Le Captain member is offline Joined: Jan 2002 Gender: Male Posts: 8,110 Location: Nashville, Tennessee Re: Legend of Drizzt « Reply #1 on Aug 20, 2009, 2:03am » Never heard of it. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged D'Ghor vestai-Darj Sogh (KAG) member is offline Line Lord of House Darj Joined: Feb 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 291 Location: Qo'noS (San Diego CA) Re: Legend of Drizzt « Reply #2 on Aug 21, 2009, 7:34am » Sounds interesting indeed...I'll look into these books Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Sogh D'Ghor vestai-Darj (KAG) CO - IKV Suvwl' po' KAG Universe X - My Free space strategy game online multiplayer Reno Captain member is offline I can't have you do that. No one gets in the way of Reno and the Turks... Joined: Feb 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 1,533 Location: right here Re: Legend of Drizzt « Reply #3 on Aug 22, 2009, 1:12pm » They're Dungeons & Dragons novels. However, they're no more inaccessible to people who don't play D&D than any other fantasy series. And thankfully, they have nothing at all to do with the horrible Dungeons & Dragons movie, nor the equally awful made-for-television sequel. I'll try and give a little summary of what the series is about without spoiling too much: Drizzt Do'Urden is a drow (dark elf), who unlike the vast majority of his race, is not evil and doesn't worship the evil spider-goddess Lolth. The Dark Elf Trilogy deals with his living among his own people, but the rest of the books take place after he's moved out of their subterranean city and has to deal with all the hatred and mistrust that comes from being a member of a race notorious for their evil and treachery. All of this while also killing lots of monsters and dueling his nemesis Artemis Entreri on several occasions. I haven't read all of the books, but most of the ones I have read were pretty good. The only one that I really didn't like was the one that focused on Wulfgar (a human barbarian and friend of Drizzt). Wulfgar simply isn't interesting enough in my opinion to be the main character of the story, which is ironic since he was originally intended to be the main character when R.A. Salvatore first started writing his first novel. He quickly realized that Drizzt was a much more compelling character, though. « Last Edit: Aug 22, 2009, 1:14pm by Reno » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Elena. Don't misunderstand. A pro isn't someone who sacrifices himself for his job. That's just a fool. We are the Sorg. Your sig will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. (Put this in your sig to show that it has been assimilated). myth Captain member is offline second star to the right........ Joined: Dec 2001 Gender: Female Posts: 3,132 Location: space coast Re: Legend of Drizzt « Reply #4 on Aug 26, 2009, 9:38am » you should also read the crimson shadow series, and the woods out back series, mr salvatore has a lot of diversity. i have a signed copy of the crimson shadow book 2. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged " pennies and dreams, carelessly spent, pieces of time who knows where they went...." Reno Captain member is offline I can't have you do that. No one gets in the way of Reno and the Turks... Joined: Feb 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 1,533 Location: right here Re: Legend of Drizzt « Reply #5 on Aug 27, 2009, 8:34pm » I might check those out after I finish the Wheel of Time. Salvatore is batting about .500 with me - I hated most of his DemonWars books and his one foray into Star Wars was a total disaster. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Elena. Don't misunderstand. A pro isn't someone who sacrifices himself for his job. That's just a fool. We are the Sorg. Your sig will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. (Put this in your sig to show that it has been assimilated). myth Captain member is offline second star to the right........ Joined: Dec 2001 Gender: Female Posts: 3,132 Location: space coast Re: Legend of Drizzt « Reply #6 on Aug 28, 2009, 4:10am » i loved the silver string triology, but some of the dark efl books after that got a bit preachy, lol Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged " pennies and dreams, carelessly spent, pieces of time who knows where they went...." Reno Captain member is offline I can't have you do that. No one gets in the way of Reno and the Turks... Joined: Feb 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 1,533 Location: right here Re: Legend of Drizzt « Reply #7 on Sept 1, 2009, 5:10pm » I haven't read them all, but if I could make it through the later half of the Sword of Truth series (talk about preachy!) then I can probably make it through those. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Elena. Don't misunderstand. A pro isn't someone who sacrifices himself for his job. That's just a fool. We are the Sorg. Your sig will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. (Put this in your sig to show that it has been assimilated). myth Captain member is offline second star to the right........ Joined: Dec 2001 Gender: Female Posts: 3,132 Location: space coast Re: Legend of Drizzt « Reply #8 on Sept 8, 2009, 5:17am » been trying to remember the name of the other series he did. its about a monk named cadderly, i believe, its a forgotten realms series (ther are five books) the hero uses a weapon that mightily resembles a yoyo. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged " pennies and dreams, carelessly spent, pieces of time who knows where they went...." Reno Captain member is offline I can't have you do that. No one gets in the way of Reno and the Turks... Joined: Feb 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 1,533 Location: right here Re: Legend of Drizzt « Reply #9 on Sept 9, 2009, 8:33pm » Ah yes. The Cleric Quintet, I believe it's called. I have that around here somewhere. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Elena. Don't misunderstand. A pro isn't someone who sacrifices himself for his job. That's just a fool. We are the Sorg. Your sig will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. (Put this in your sig to show that it has been assimilated). 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