Anne McCaffery: Consider reading the Earthsea trilogy. I only read the first book, but I liked it and plan to look up the other two. Don't expect a grand plotline, or a truly well-written book, but it is better written by far than The Lord of the Rings. The story comes across well, albiet with the... slightly archaic style that was used by many fantasy writers of that period.

Consider looking up Clifford Simak. He didn't write that many fantasy books, but I liked Where the Evil Dwells.

Tad Williams 'Memory, Sorrow and Thorn' trilogy is amazing, and I thank Mynona again for reccomending it to me. Be aware though, that 'slow-paced' would be an understatement in describing it, and that the third book in the series is equal in size to the other two combined, hence the split it underwent when it was sold in the mass-market form.