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It's a close one but in the end (surprise) John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, closely followed by C.S.Lewis, Stephen Lawhead, Peter Moorwood and David Gemmel for fantasy. Robert.E.Howard for a different style of fantasy writing (along with Fritz Lieber). Dashiel Hammet, Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for detective work. Oh, and for the good old historical stuff, Francis Bacon (aka William Shakespeare), Homer, Geoffrey Chaucer, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Snori Sturllusson and the many authors of the Anglo Saxon annals. There, that's about it.
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Balgin, the Dwarf
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