The fantasy shelf in my local library (in Sweden) would certainly have supported that idea. Well, once it had something more than Tolkien. From memory it was Katherine Kerr, Elizabeth Moon, Marion Zimmer Bradley (hindsight "ugh"), and Robin Hobb.
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I just discovered Hobb! So far, I'm two books into the "Rain Wilder" series and I am enthralled

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I LOVED that series. Wanted to name my son Abrashen.
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Patricia C. Wrede.
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Isobelle Carmody, K.A. Applegate.
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Oof I remember Sara Douglass
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me as a teenager: I love these books! me now, remembering said books: oh... oh No...
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