![]() Terry Brooks first novel, THE SWORD OF SHANNARA, began the post-Tolkien huge boom in epic fantasy in 1977. The company chosen by Walker must fly into the face of unknown terrors while the Ilse Witch and her dark allies follow, waiting to strike. And thus begins the voyage of the sleek, swift airship Jerle Shannara. To stop her, Walker must find the magic first. She will stop at nothing to possess the map - and the magic it leads to. But one other person understands the map's significance - the Ilse Witch, a beautiful but twisted young woman, who wields a magic as potent as Walker's own. That man is Walker Boh, the last of the Druids. For the rescued elf carries a map covered with mysterious symbols only one man can decipher. Thirty years ago, an expedition in search of a legendary, ancient magic set out. (Apr.When the body of a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. As an allegory of the eternal struggle between good and evil, the vital basis of fantasy, Brooks's mythical universe also suffers from a crucial dearth of those magical moments of heart-stopping revelation when, against all hope, against all reason, against all the forces of evil, salvation comes at last. Brooks's prose generates a breakneck pace, but it lacks depth of characterization and also the wealth of linguistic invention that the most satisfying high fantasy offers. With a handful of companions, he must find and hide the Black Elfstone from the Warlock Lord and forge a magic sword for Elven King Jerle Shannara to wield against the warlock. Set 500 years before the events of Sword, the novel chronicles the destruction of ivory-towered Paranor and its Druid scholars, tracing the subsequent adventures of the outcast Druid-magician Bremen. Tolkien's influence is so strong in this prequel to The Sword of Shannara (1977), which launched the series, that many of the events here seem predictable or repetitive. Tolkien's Middle Earth but, given all the elves, dwarves, warlocks, trolls and gnomes that run rampant in the setting of Brooks's many Shannara novels (The Talismans of Shannara, etc.), readers can be forgiven for trying. ![]() ![]() You can't find the Four Lands on any map of J.R.R. ![]()
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