Dragonlance: The Chronicles Trilogy

[Kaiden]

Anyone ever read and enjoyed these books! I read them back in middle school. They rank up there with the Lord of the Rings books in my mind. I tried reading some of the spin off books and they just didnt capture me the way this story did.

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Dragons of Winter Night:
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Dragons of Spring Dawning:
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My favorite character was probably Sturm Brightblade. I was a huge paladin fan when I was younger!

[Trodorne]

back when i was younger i read these book and it helped me get into the Dungeons and dragons series. but mainly i got into the war of the twins series. I think the Dragonlance world is an awesome and epic series. but you have to be commited to it in order to under stand what is happening.

[Zargabaath]

They rank up there with the Lord of the Rings books in my mind. I tried reading some of the spin off books and they just didnt capture me the way this story did.

I do like the Chronicles trilogy [Dragonlance] more than the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I liked the characters if the first one more. Besides that, which spin-off books did you read? There are a lot of interesting books that really expand Ansalon and Krynn. Even some of the short stories are really great regardless of their length. If Sturm was your favourite character I would suggest reading The Oath and The Measure which is part of the Meetings Sextet that tells the story of how the characters met up with each other; the book is about Sturm's journey and one of my favourite books in the series. I have, if I'm correct in my judgment, over 50 books in the series and I guess I'll name them off just for the hell of it, SPACE!

Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins
Dragons of the Dwarven Depths
Dragons of the Highlord Skies
Dragons of the Hourglass Mage
Dragon of Summer Flame
Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Dragons of a Lost Star
Dragons of a Vanished Moon
The Soulforge
Brothers in Arms
Kindred Spirits
Wanderlust
Dark Heart
The Oath & The Measure
Steel and Stone
The Companions
Darkness & Light
Kendermore
Brothers Majere
Riverwind the Plainsman
Flint the King
Tanis the Shadow Years
The Dragons
Dragons of Time
The Dragons at War
The Dragons of Krynn
The Lord of the Rose
The Crown and the Sword
The Measure and the Truth
The Legend of Huma
Knights of the Crown
Knights of the Sword
Knights of the Rose
The Wayward Knights
The Black Talon
The Fire Rose
Tales of Uncle Trapspringer
Night of the Eye
The Medusa Plague
The Seventh Sentinel
Fistandantilus Reborn
Dalamar the Dark
Blades of the Tiger
Trail of the Black Wrym
Shadow of the Flame
The Great White Wrym
The Alien Sea
Saving Solace
Heroes and Fools
Love and War
The Reign of Istar
The Cataclysm
The War of the Lance
Covenant of the Forge
Hammer and Axe
The Swordsheath Scroll
Storm Blade
The Gates of Thorbardin
The Secret of Pax Tharkas
The Heir of Kayolin
The Odyssey of Gilthanas
The Kagonesti
Firstborn
The Kinslayer Wars
The Qualenesti
Sanctuary
Alliances
Destiny
The Rebellion
Night of Blood
The Sellsword
The Forest King
Amber and Ashes
Amber and Iron
Amber and Blood

[Dodie16]

My older brother Marc was a big fan of these books and the spinoffs, and I read a couple of them myself. This was a while back, so I can't recall the titles, but after reading Zarg's MASSIVE list (), the few that stick out to me are Kendermore and Dalamar the Dark, so that may have been the titles that I've read. I have not read the original trilogy, but since I did enjoy the couple of spinoff titles that I did read, perhaps I should give it a shot.

[Kaiden]

I read the frist two books in the twins series. Just never liked them and never really connected with their characters, but my brother loved them and said the books were good. So they were the first books I picked up after I read the Trilogy. I switch to a Drizzit book after the second one(Legacy might have just come out), and never went back.

Just threw this topic out since I found the Trilogy at a book sale for $5 and bought it. So I was gonna read them again, and figured if I got a few snags in this thread we could go over the books as I was reading them again.

Edit: Ohh yeah a few years back I bought a "second generation" book. Ill have to find it when Im not at work, I think it followed the children of the heroes from the dragon war. It was awful and I didn't get very far with it.

[Clint]

I remember these books. Chronicles is the trilogy that got me interested in reading. The first book was a bit disorganized, but the other two were very well written; especially Winter Nights. The end of that one always upset me a little bit. Great writing on the part of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

One of my favorite aspects of the Dragonlance series, which is particularly apparent in all volumes written by Weis and Hickman, is the yin-yang effect between good and evil, which plays a strong significance in the conclusion of Chronicles; the less famous fourth installment; Dragons of Summer Flame. In the book, the Knights of Solamnia (light) and the Knights of Takhisis (dark) must coexist and make a stand together or everybody will be destroyed.

Very good books.

[T.G. Oskar]

One of my favorite aspects of the Dragonlance series, which is particularly apparent in all volumes written by Weis and Hickman, is the yin-yang effect between good and evil, which plays a strong significance in the conclusion of Chronicles...

It's not necessarily yin-yang between good and evil, but the notion of perfect balance between all three sides.

SPOILER!!:

Which is basically the reason why Paladine has to give up his divinity and become a mortal in order to remove Takhisis' godhood, and why a story where Raistlin would have won and absorbed the power of both Takhisis and Paladine would have ended up in the destruction of Krynn. Still, the loss of balance in Neutrality could be equally disastrous.

SPOILER!!:

Then again, based on the books, Mina who was destined to be a Goddess of Light became a Goddess of Neutrality after the Paladine/Takhisis affair.

[DragonHeart]

I read a few of the books, in the wrong order no less. The first DragonLance book I remember reading was Dragons of a Summer Flame. Mostly cause I liked the cover. I also read the first two volumes of the original trilogy, a couple of the prologue books, and The Dragons of Krynn. Oh, and a book of short stories based in the world. Dragons of Chaos might have been the title.

I honestly don't really remember a lot about the books, which is pretty unusual for me. I think I read them at a bad time and just got bored with the series. I don't know how they managed it but yes, books about dragons that I find boring actually exist.

Maybe I'll try them again someday, but I have to admit I've been gravitating to more original, darker fantasy than I used to.

~DragonHeart~