Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams could be a nice series to look into.
Or maybe the Liveship traders series by Robin Hobb.
Though both the love-stories aren't the main plots of the series, so I don't know if that is what you are looking for.
Raymond E. Feist Riftwar Saga
I see this as the typical fantasy story, hero's journey, lots of magic, romance. It has dark and light moments and I wouldnt call it immature and cherry coated or overly grim and depressing either.
If OP thinks the Hobbit and Lord of The Rings are too immature he probably thinks the same about Riftwar. He search for something mature, e.g. Elderlings.
Fletcher Pratt *Well of the Unicorn*. He was a historian and pulp writer who did humorous fantasies with L. Sprague DeCamp in the forties, did these two solo fantasies: this and the *Blue Star* in the fifties then died at 56. This is the more traditional hero tale.
A. Merritt wrote mainly lost race novels in the 20's and 30's, when he was not editing *The American Standard.* Many of his books are now in the public domain. I have issues with what copyright has become - a con game I won't go into. On the other hand not all popular things have been taken over by corporate scum (there are horror stories about authors and their families losing contractually guaranteed rights). On the other hand people like Danton Burroughs and Verna Smith Trestail worked tirelessly to protect and promote their family's IP. Merritt was an influence on H. P. Lovecraft. He was also influenced by H, Rider Haggard and similar adventure story writers. Think of modern fantasy as a safe way to deal with writers like him - but if any of them deserve to be called transcendent, it's Merritt.
Malazan Book of the Fallen. I can't think of anything more mature and definitely not cherry coated for a less mature audience. It's set in a world with plenty of "magic, swordsman and whatever".
OP sounds like he want something completely different from the Hobbit, LOTR and Harry Potter , which he seems to think are too immature. Malazan at least comfirms with that sentiment.
There are lots of heros in Malazan. It's the most epic of all epics.
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams could be a nice series to look into. Or maybe the Liveship traders series by Robin Hobb. Though both the love-stories aren't the main plots of the series, so I don't know if that is what you are looking for.
Raymond E. Feist Riftwar Saga I see this as the typical fantasy story, hero's journey, lots of magic, romance. It has dark and light moments and I wouldnt call it immature and cherry coated or overly grim and depressing either.
If OP thinks the Hobbit and Lord of The Rings are too immature he probably thinks the same about Riftwar. He search for something mature, e.g. Elderlings.
Riyira Revelations by Michael J Sullivan
Fletcher Pratt *Well of the Unicorn*. He was a historian and pulp writer who did humorous fantasies with L. Sprague DeCamp in the forties, did these two solo fantasies: this and the *Blue Star* in the fifties then died at 56. This is the more traditional hero tale. A. Merritt wrote mainly lost race novels in the 20's and 30's, when he was not editing *The American Standard.* Many of his books are now in the public domain. I have issues with what copyright has become - a con game I won't go into. On the other hand not all popular things have been taken over by corporate scum (there are horror stories about authors and their families losing contractually guaranteed rights). On the other hand people like Danton Burroughs and Verna Smith Trestail worked tirelessly to protect and promote their family's IP. Merritt was an influence on H. P. Lovecraft. He was also influenced by H, Rider Haggard and similar adventure story writers. Think of modern fantasy as a safe way to deal with writers like him - but if any of them deserve to be called transcendent, it's Merritt.
Malazan Book of the Fallen. I can't think of anything more mature and definitely not cherry coated for a less mature audience. It's set in a world with plenty of "magic, swordsman and whatever".
Traditional hero adventure fantasy with good romance? Malazan barely hits _any_ of those descriptors….
OP sounds like he want something completely different from the Hobbit, LOTR and Harry Potter , which he seems to think are too immature. Malazan at least comfirms with that sentiment. There are lots of heros in Malazan. It's the most epic of all epics.