Need a good fantasy series

[metallimonster]

You know I've read LOTR and it is okay.  IMHO it is really dry and not very exciting.  I look at Tolkein the same way I do at Black Sabbath.
If there wasn't Sabbath there wouldn't be Metallica and if there wasn't Tolkein there wouldn't be George R.R. Martin.  I appreciate them both but don't really like their stuff.

[Smiling End]

Here's some info for you:

Book One: Elric of Melnibone
Book Two: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Book Three: The Weird of the White Wolf
Book Four: The Vanishing Tower
Book Five: The Bane of the Black Sword
Book Six: Stormbringer

Then there's various anthology collections:
-Tales of the White Wolf
-Elric at the End of Time

I know there's more out there, maybe someone else can help.

There's also:
The Dreamthief's Daughter
sequel:  The Skrayling Tree
The White Wolf's Son: The Albino Underground
Revenge of the Rose
Fortress of the Pearl

I think that combined with DucAtomic's list is all of them.  Start with his though as these are pretty much tangential like someone else said.

[ducsix]

that was exactly how i felt when i worked my way through 'the silmarillion'
found myself wishing i had a cliff notes version to refer to at some points

What??  You don't actually *read* The Simarillion!  It's just to put on your bookshelf so people know how much of a geek you are. 

I got about 5 pages into that book before realizing that Tolkien was taking the whole middle earth thing waaaaaaay too seriously.

[somegirl]

Another suggestion: Guy Gavriel Kay - The Fionavar Tapestry (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road), Tigana, and some of his other books.

If you gotta have fantasy and haven't read Robert Lynn Asprin's 'Myth Adventures' series it's a nice break from all that 'high' fantasy stuff.

+1, I introduced someguy to these and he got hooked.  Nice light fun read.

Re-reading LOTR is always an option.  I'm currently slogging through 'The Silmarillion' again at about 8 pages a night before I conk out.  I feel like I need a children's edition everytime I open that book but it sure does explain a lot about the rest of the story.

I have LOTR (and Harry Potter 3-6) in French...talk about slogging!