Lord Foul's Bane
- 404
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Lord Foul’s Bane” opens “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant” as dark, adventurous quest fantasy with magic at its centre. Readers who take to it say the likeness to Tolkien stops at the genre and value the unexpected turns in its hero’s trials. Some find the prose overwritten and the protagonist unlikeable and passive, and object to a rape early in the book that they see as gratuitous and left without real consequences.
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About the book
Lord Foul's Bane is a 1977 fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the first book of the first trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. It is followed by The Illearth War.
Reading order · The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Full order & progress →- Lord Foul's BaneThis book
7.27.2 / 10 - The Illearth War
7.97.9 / 10 - The Power that Preserves
8.08.0 / 10 - The Wounded Land
7.97.9 / 10 - The One Tree
7.97.9 / 10 - White Gold Wielder
7.97.9 / 10 - The Runes of the Earth
–Not ranked yet - Fatal Revenant
–Not ranked yet - Against All Things Ending
–Not ranked yet - The Last Dark
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.8 across 217 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 60% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 7 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 6.7 | 210 | 97% |
Frequently asked
How long is Lord Foul's Bane?
It has 404 pages — shorter than 76% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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