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crumble and sending the panicked Shea plummeting over a waterfall. His companions reach
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would eliminate the poetry and songs, the digressions on the ways and habits of types of characters, and the appendices of language and backstory that characterized and informed
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Tolkien approached it as an academic, and he was writing it as an academic effort, not as popular fiction. I’m a popular fiction writer, that's the way I approached it. And I think that you're right, too, about the fact that I was heavily under the influence of
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Without its master, the Skull
Kingdom crumbles, during which Keltset sacrifices himself to save his companions. In the south, the Northland army retreats after the Warlock Lord's downfall. Allanon saves Shea's life and reveals himself as Bremen's centuries-old son. Shea reunites with his companions
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During the siege of Tyrsis, Hendel and Menion come upon
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The council at Culhaven, which also includes the elven brothers Durin and Dayel Elessedil and the dwarf Hendel, assesses the Warlock King's current threat and decide to recover the Sword of Shannara from Paranor. During the party's trek to Paranor, they are beset by earthquakes, causing the path to
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begin to emerge after having been in seclusion and hiding for centuries. Man retreats southward while the other races settle elsewhere: the dwarves in the east, the gnomes in the hills of the northeast, the trolls in the north and the elves in the west. Due to this distribution, the territories,
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Shea Ohmsford, the protagonist, Flick's adopted brother and the only remaining descendant of Jerle Shannara. Shea must find an ancient magical sword, the Sword of Shannara, and use it to destroy the antagonist, the Warlock Lord. A major theme of this novel revolves around Shea—part of his quest
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as "the single most cold-blooded, complete rip-off of another book that I have ever read". He further wrote that "Terry Brooks wasn't trying to imitate Tolkien's prose, just steal his story line and complete cast of characters, and he did it with such clumsiness and so heavy-handedly, that he
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more in a cautionary vein than as a prophecy. Also, it was necessary to destroy civilization in order to take a look at what it would mean to have to build it back up again using magic. A civilization once destroyed by misuse of power is a bit wary the second time out about what new power can
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of Paranor. Naming themselves the First Druid Council, they try to bring peace and order to all of the races. The rogue Druid Brona departs with his followers and the Ildatch, a magical tome that controls their minds. Hundreds of years later, Brona convinces all Men to attack the other races,
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too closely, but he also cited some of the differences, such as the use of a post-holocaust setting with the races which sprang from it, and an "unexpected ending springing from the nature of the sword." Cathi Dunn MacRae felt that his strength was "his plot's momentum, maintained through
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triggering the First War of the Races. Although nearly victorious, he is ultimately defeated by the council and disappears. The Druids divide the Four Lands among the races and become reclusive, withdrawing to Paranor because of their shame at the betrayal by one of their own members.
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Flick infiltrates an enemy camp and rescues the captive Elven King, Eventine Elessedil; at the same time, in Kern, Menion saves a woman named Shirl Ravenlock and falls in love with her. They organize an evacuation of Kern before the Northland army reaches the city.
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stated that the novel was "exceptionally well-written, very readable" and "will be accepted by most teenagers." Marshall F. Tymn also thought that it contained quality prose. Tymn believed that
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1374:"Ask Terry Q&A - Writing"
1283:"The Sword Of Shannara", 330.
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594:The original inspiration for
512:Washington and Lee University
449:Panamon Creel, a one-handed "
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2290:Lee, Stuart D., ed. (2022).
2085:. For Dummies. p. 376.
1499:The World of Science Fiction
1487:The World of Science Fiction
1401:Brooks, Terry (March 2009).
219:. It is the first book in a
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2727:The Dark Legacy of Shannara
2224:MacRae, Cathi Dunn (1998).
2003:Timmerman, John H. (1983).
1727:Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
1715:Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
1646:Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
1473:The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
1305:Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
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2928:The Weapon Master's Choice
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1823:Card, Orson Scott (1999).
1548:Massengill, David (2001).
1429:"Terry Brooks - Biography"
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2048:Pringle, David (2006) .
1790:Attebery, Brian (1980).
1765:. Garland Pub. pp.
1759:Schlobin, Roger (1979).
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2879:The Shannara Chronicles
2840:Dark Wraith of Shannara
2785:The Sorcerer's Daughter
2474:The Genesis of Shannara
1701:(July–August 1977): 30.
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1202:summary at Google books
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2612:The Scions of Shannara
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865:Aragorn
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