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What fantasy styled games are out there and what is unique to them or makes them standout?

I know of course of LOTR, Mantic and WHFB but what else is out there?

I think Histoical games that are dark ages/medival set can be included. (so WH historical.)

One very unique game is Hordes of the Things, it is an extremely generic fantasy rules set that can allow you to make pretty much any army you want and can be addapted to other periods. They do this by having generic unit types almost anything can fit into, unit types like Blades, Spears, Heros, Riders, Wizards, Flyers, ect. (21 types in all). You can make almost anything , I have seen general fantasy armys (elves, dwarves, knights, ect.), rock armys (http://www.matakishi.com/15mmrockarmy.htm), a Doctor Who army, and many other great and funny armys. The game can also be played in any size you want: 6mm, 15mm, 20mm, and 25mm ( I have made up my own sizes for 28mm, 25 is a little small, ask if you want it). The rules are relatively simple, but the game is still very strategic.
The rules are avalible free online, at this site:

http://www.wrg.me.uk/
(There is a link to the rules about halfway down the page of "History of W.R.G.")

The only problem is that the origional rulebook is a bit hard to understand, but you can get a helpful reference sheet here:

http://www.panix.com/~sos/mini/hott-aid.html
(Link to pdf. at top of page)

Theres Wargods from Crocodile Games. Never played it myself but I hear its fun. Only complaint I have heard though is that it seems they cant focus on one set of mythology for too long before switching to another

https://www.crocodilegames.com/store/index.cfm

Our Brushfire game is more Historical Parody then fantasy, but does have the uniqueness of being all animal based models. Its a skirmish game which is designed to scale between very few models (like say 5) to very large games (around 100 models) and any where inbetween.


Hamster Berserkers.

Only issue is getting it on your side of the pond, we haven't gotten a distro point over there yet, so shipping is pretty hefty.