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As for me, my vote goes to Dark Tower.   Sure, a couple of the books were a little over drawn or too "bridgy."  I really enjoyed it, though.

LOTR will always hold first place for me.  But I really enjoyed some of Stephen R. Donaldson's stuff, too.

I don't read a lot, but the Star of the Guardians series by Margaret Weis would be my favorite.  Just because it's about the only series I've read  :teddyr:  They are really good though.

I have a hard time reading series.  I'm too compelled to keep reading the whole thing from start to finish, especially if it's a good one.  That means that I'll have a crap ton of other books that will sit on the back burner until book 45 has been finished, or until I get tired of reading halfway through book 22. 

No "A Game of Thrones"?
Blasphemy!

Oh, no doubt. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." The first paperback I ever bought was his "Fellowship of the Ring," which I still have. Actually, I have all the paperbacks I bought over the years. Though, most of them are boxed up and in storage.

I understand why Joe the Destroyer had to restrick the number of series for the poll and then chose what he thought would be the most popular, but as someone who is heavily into fantasy, he barely scratched the surface. Thus, here are some more of my favorite fantasy series.

The Artemis Fowl series
by Eoin Colfer (6 books with 1 or 2 still to come)
I've only read the first two, then only in graphic novel form, but, for my money he is one of the greatest fantasy writers, writing at this time, especially, if you like well drawn characters. As they say: "Nobody can do it better."

The Dragonlance series
by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss (Unknown number of books)
The first books were written by Hickman and Weiss and spawned a great number of other novels and short story collections. Some of which were written by Hickman and/or Weiss and others by other authors. I like many of the other authors, but I think my two favorites are Douglas Niles and Chris Pearson, as I am almost guaranteed a great read by those two.

The Mithgar series
by Dennis McKiernan (15 or 16 books)
Most of which I have read, and one of the most realistic series out there, as nobody moves faster than it is humanly possible, so a character can be days, even weeks, on the road before they get to where they are going.

He also has . . .
The Faery series (5 or 6 books)
Most of which I have also read. These are reinterpretations of classic fairy tales. For example, the first book in the series is a reinterpretation of the Scandinavian "East of the Sun, West of the Moon."

The Ravenloft series
by multiple authors (Unknown number of books)
This is an interesting series, as it is actually horror with a fantasy twist. My favorite is the first one in the series "I, Strahd," which is about vampires, but other books in the series have dealt with Frankenstein's Monster, hunchbacks, werewolves, zombies, and about every classic horror monster out there.

The Shannara series
by Terry Brooks (16 or so books)
Most of which I have read. He also has two other on-going series . . .

The Magic Kingdom of Landover (5 or 6 books)
Again, most of which I have read and . . .

The Word and the Void (3 books)
None of which I have read.

The Villain series
Multiple authors (unknown number of books)
I wish I could remember more about this series, since it is such a good one, but all the books that I have from this series are boxed up and in storage. But, I do remember it being a series within the Dragonlance series and dealing with villains, such as Lord Toede the Goblin and Lord Soth the Death Knight, which can be found in the Dragonlance series.

But all those books have been published within the past thirty years, if you want a series that is older than try . . .

The Grimm Brothers series
While Jacob and William are not responsible for writing any of the tales in the series, they are responsible for collecting and publishing them. And there are more than you think. Some being quite obscure out of the complete collection.

But, I have just scratched the surface, and there are many more fantasy series out there.

I can't decide. I've read lots of sci-fi/fantasy series, the've all been good, and they've all had their weaker books. Of the choices on the list, I've read all of LOTR, the first three Ender books, and the first book of Dune. But there are a few series I've read in their entirety that aren't on the list.

- Asimov's Foundation series and Robot series, and the associated prequels and tie-ins

- Clarke's Rama series

- The Stainless Steel Rat

- The Ringworld series

- Harry Turtledove's Worldwar/Colonization series

- John Christopher's Tripod trilogy

and others that probably couldn't be properly called series.

I'd have a hard time deciding which I liked best. I guess I'll just have to vote "other."

I concur. If I had to pick a current favorite "A Song of Ice and Fire" would be it.

I casted my vote for Twilight...ok I kid.  :bouncegiggle:  Actually I love Percy Jackson And The Olympians.  I keep encouraging everyone to read it before the films come out.

Now if only A Dance with Dragons would be out.
I'm afraid that I'll die of old age before the books are finished. :lookingup:

I keep eying the books when I see them in stores.  I will most likely pick them up before the movies hit.

Discworld for me. Terry Pratchett's books are like whole new worlds, that live, breathe and constantly evolve. There's silly characters, black humour, interesting stories and everything is brilliantly and cleverly written. My favourite sub-series within them are the ones that feature Death.

I've never really followed series as much as authors.  For example: I have most of Micheal Cricthton's books.  The two execptions I can think of are the short lived Godzilla novels by Marc Cerasini.  And Preston and Child's books with Pendergast.  Although I haven't got to the Dioness triology yet.

We'll also have to hope George R.R. Martin doesn't go the Robert Jordan route.

That is a tough list.  I like so many of the series on there.  Potter, LOTR, and Hitchhikers would be my top picks I guess.  Ender's Game books and Dark Tower would be some close seconds.

I wanted to name my daughter Ella Saturday from discworld   :teddyr:   My husband wasnt going for it. I did get to name one of the boys after a character in a Stephen R Donaldson book though.   :thumbup: 

Fantasy is mainly what I read and there is no way I could pick a favorite.

I'll have to cast my vote for Fred Saberhagen as my favorite.  IF i have to pick a favorite.

I didn't go for the "Berserker" stuff, but my goodness, read _Empire of the East_. 
Then there are the "Swords" books.

For SciFi, Gibson is my favorite.  (William Gibson).

Guess my two favorites have in common that they are both excellent wordsmiths -- they are incredibly thoughtful about how they place the words together, and which they choose.

JRR Tolkein doesn't have my favorite writing style, but you have to bow down before him; he started it all in so many ways.  I still haven't been able to choke down the Silmarillion tho.  :P

Saberhagen is awesome. I loved the "Swords" books and I did 'go' for the " 'Berserker' stuff"  :wink:

I'm a longtime fan of older SF.  Give me Isaac Asimov to read and I am very happy.  So I rank Asimov's Robot stories high, as well as his "Foundation" series.

For fantasy, I enjoyed Guy Gavriel Kay's "The Fionavar Tapestry" trilogy.  It has been a long while since I read it but at the time it struck me as 'next generation' Tolkien.