Hi!  Have you heard of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant?
Yes, Love it. It's series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. Donaldson.
Interesting!  I love the Lord of the Rings books.  Is it comparable?
Not really. It's about The Illearth War", and covers an episode from the doomed mission to contact the Giants.
Interesting.  I am very curious about the books now.  Are the books quite long?
describes Korik's selection of the mission's Bloodguard, then narrates the mission's passage through Grimmerdhore forest, where they defeat an ambush of ur-viles and kresh (wolves). The narrative ends as the mission leaves the forest.
As per the author's foreword. "Gilden-Fire" was originally part of a larger, planned section of "The Illearth War" that followed the mission to the Giants in "real time", but was cut due to space restrictions as well as point-of-
Lord Foul's Bane
Lord Foul's Bane is a 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".
Plot summary.
Thomas Covenant is a young author whose world is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with leprosy. After six months' treatment and counselling in a leprosarium, he returns home to find himself alone, divorced by his wife Joan, and outcast from his community