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  • The best way I could describe Randland (an informal term for The Wheel of Time setting) would be a less dystopian Middle Earth.

    It’s a larger and happier - and even more pure in a non-earthly-religions sense. In a good way. But there’s still world ending conflict, it’s just - incoming controversial opinion - better than Middle Earth.

    It’s a massive world and worth every word read. It’s a lifelong re-read for me, and I don’t even re-read LoTR.

    There is a similarity to Midworld and its relation to Earth in the series, but it would be spoiler-y for me to elaborate.

    It’s very much The Hero’s Tale. Village - Adventure - Save the Cat. But it’s how it should be.

    Edit: the show is not a place to start. Not slagging it, but it’s incomparable to the books. Best experience is the OG audiobooks narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, not Amazons re-recorded rights grab.