High fantasy really does suck. LotR is forgivably bad because it was the first set of modern books to really do that, but after that someone really should have improved on the genre somehow, and no one really has.

And for the record, Wheel of Time and Sword of Truth were just...grumble. I think the last "fantasy" book that I read that was any good was the Gene Wolfe New Sun series. The only problem is it suffers from a writing style denser than Cicero...