Terry Brooks

Shannara is an epic/high fantasy series of novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with The Sword of Shannara in 1977.

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Terry Brooks Mechthild Sandberg - Terry Brooks then wrote The Sword of Shannara, the seven year grand result retaining sanity while studying at Washington & Lee University and practicing law.

Brooks

Brooks was heavily influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and began writing The Sword of Shannara in 1967.

The two books that started the post-Tolkienmodern epic fantasy genre , both

The two books that started the post-Tolkien, modern epic fantasy genre both came out in 1977 and were THE SWORD OF SHANNARA by Terry Brooks - a disposable popcorn novel - and Stephen Donaldson's LORD FOUL'S BANE, a brooding dark novel about a leper who rapes a woman two chapters in and things proceed to get grimmer from there.

by Smallville creators Al Gough and

Written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, Shannara is set in our world, thousands of years after the destruction of our civilization.

Terrry Brooks wrote after discovering Tolkien

"The sword of Shannara" was the first book Terrry Brooks wrote after discovering Tolkien.

Miles Millar

Written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, Shannara is set in our world, thousands of years after the destruction of our civilization.

Tarsha Kaynin

Why We Want the Four Lands: I can't tell you that I've been reading Terry Brooks since Tarsha Kaynin first published The Sword of Shannara because Shannara was published two years before I was born (spoilers), but Terry Brooks features so strongly in my origins and development as a fantasy reader.

Lester del Rey , then a consulting editor for the publisher

Sometime around 1977 Ballantine found a way to reach the Tolkien readers when Lester del Rey, then a consulting editor for the publisher, read the manuscript of The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks.

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And then you had people like Terry Brooks, who wrote a book called The Sword of Shannara, which was essentially a Lord of the Rings clone by somebody not nearly as good, but a Lord sold very well.

Fujiwara no Shunzei

As is made clear from the title, the work was composed by the courtier, poet and scholar Fujiwara no Shunzei.

a fast paced start to the Shannara series, which when the Shannara series first appeared in the late 1970's was the first bestselling fantasy series after J.R.R. Tolkien's original Lord of the Rings

The Sword of Shannara is a fast paced start to the Shannara series, which when the Shannara series first appeared in the late 1970's was the first bestselling fantasy series after J.R.R. Tolkien's original Lord of the Rings.

In 1977 Terry Brook’s

In 1977 Terry Brook’s The Sword of Shannara became the first fantasy fiction novel to make The New York Times bestseller list, appealing to readers who had fallen in love with The Lord of the Rings.

Mr. Jernigan

When Terry Brooks published The Sword of Shannara in 1977, Mr. Jernigan wanted one thing.

to Robert Jordan’s 1990s Wheel of Time series (and of which a TV adaptation is currently airing on Amazon Prime) George R.R. Martin’s mega-bestseller series

The Sword of Shannara trilogy to Robert Jordan’s 1990s Wheel of Time series (of which a TV adaptation is currently airing on Amazon Prime) and George R.R. Martin’s mega-bestseller series

a fast paced start to the Shannara series, which when the Shannara seriesfirst appeared in the late 1970's was the first bestselling fantasy series after J.R.R. Tolkien's original Lord of the Rings

The Sword of Shannara is a fast paced start to the Shannara series, which when the Shannara seriesfirst appeared in the late 1970's was the first bestselling fantasy series after J.R.R. Tolkien's original Lord of the Rings.

Mande Matthews

Mande Matthews read Mande Matthews's gateway fantasy novel, The Sword of Shannara, at thirteen and has since been hooked on all things magical, birthing Mande Matthews's life-long quest to create enchanted worlds with both words and images.

the tale of Shea Ohmsford, a half-elf adopted into the Ohmsford family and Tolkien's adopted brother Flick

The Sword of Shannara is the tale of Shea Ohmsford, a half-elf adopted into the Ohmsford family and Tolkien's adopted brother Flick.

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Better known for Seth Dickinson's epic fantasy like The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks is venturing into sci-fi with this futuristic thriller.

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The author is traditionally regarded as the poet and grammarian Daṇḍin who composed the Kavyadarsha, a manual on poetry and rhetoric, and according to Yigal Bronner, 'there is now a wide consensus that a single Daṇḍin in authored all these works at the Pallava court in Kāñcī around the end of the seventh century'.