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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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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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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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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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1363:"Ask Terry Q&A - Writing"
1272:"The Sword Of Shannara", 330.
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583:The original inspiration for
501:Washington and Lee University
438:Panamon Creel, a one-handed "
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2966:Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
2279:Lee, Stuart D., ed. (2022).
2074:. For Dummies. p. 376.
1488:The World of Science Fiction
1476:The World of Science Fiction
1390:Brooks, Terry (March 2009).
208:. It is the first book in a
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2716:The Dark Legacy of Shannara
2213:MacRae, Cathi Dunn (1998).
1992:Timmerman, John H. (1983).
1716:Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
1704:Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
1635:Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
1462:The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
1294:Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
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2512:Bearers of the Black Staff
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1537:Massengill, David (2001).
1418:"Terry Brooks - Biography"
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2037:Pringle, David (2006) .
1779:Attebery, Brian (1980).
1754:. Garland Pub. pp.
1748:Schlobin, Roger (1979).
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3057:Why I Write About Elves
2868:The Shannara Chronicles
2829:Dark Wraith of Shannara
2774:The Sorcerer's Daughter
2463:The Genesis of Shannara
1690:(July–August 1977): 30.
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1191:summary at Google books
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2762:The High Druid's Blade
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2601:The Scions of Shannara
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2434:Running with the Demon
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2785:The Fall of Shannara
2591:Heritage of Shannara
2442:A Knight of the Word
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1731:Carter, Lin (1978).
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1090:on January 5, 2016.
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1944:27 December
1189:Indomitable
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834:Tom Shippey
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854:Aragorn
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