Fantasy Fiction - Sacrifice

[Gwaimir Windgem]

For those of you who don't particularly like fantasy, you can't say you weren't duly warned. Anyway, this is about something I've noticed regarding sacrifice in fantasy fiction. And I don't mean giving up one's life for a better cause, but actual sacrifice of goods to a higher power. I have recently started to notice that in fantasy, very rarely does the worship of any goodly Deity involve a form of sacrifice. Maidens were sacrificed to Torak, dragon eggs to Takhisis (though admittedly that wasn't the best series ), and the Faithful on the altar of the temple to Morgoth built by Sauron. The only incident I can think of in a work of fantasy where a goodly Power has to do with a form of sacrifice is where it says that the firstfuits were offered to Iluvatar in the Hallow of Eru.

Thoughts, comments, input, anything related?