Banewreaker

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Banewreaker
Author	Jacqueline Carey
Country	United States of America
Language	English
Series	The Sundering
Genre(s)	Fantasy
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	November 1, 2004
Media type	Print(Hardback, Paperback)
Pages	432
ISBN	0765305216
Followed by	Godslayer

Banewreaker is a fantasy novel by Jacqueline Carey. It is Carey's fourth novel and the first in The Sundering duology. Banewreaker is set in Urulat, a world based upon J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and many of the plot points mirror The Lord of the Rings. The novel received mixed reaction, and has not achieved the popularity of the Kushiel's Legacy books.^{[citation needed]}

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Carey has acknowledged that the book is based around Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as the classical tragedy form, reversing the good versus evil scheme of Tolkien by telling the story as an "epic tragedy" from the perspective of the characters who are perceived by most of Urulat as "evil". Carey stated that "it departs from convention in one significant way, which is that it’s sympathetic to the losing side, and over the course of the two volumes, the story emerges as one long, colossal tragedy."^[1] The novel begins with a quote from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

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