Books like The Many Coloured Land & The Golden Torc

I'm rereading this series now, about 30 years after it came out. I worked at Houghton Mifflin, where it was published and avidly devoured each volume as it came out. At an author party, I met Julian May, and she asked me who my favorite character was. I told her "Aiken Drum, of course," only to learn that that was a sort of personality test and that to my surprise there was a wide variety of answers to that question. She never told me what my choice said about me, but, hey, he's still my favorite character... Really enjoying this second time around!