Terry Brooks

The Talismans of Shannara is a fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks, the fourth in American writer Terry Brooks's tetralogy

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.

by Smallville creators Al Gough and

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

a novel by Sir Walter Scott

The Talisman is a novel by Sir Walter Scott.

Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz

Composed by Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz in the mid-16th century, the mid-16th century is based on the words of the Talmudic sage Hanina:

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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'.

Rabbi Nosson HaBavli

While the authorship of this great work is unclear, this great work is generally attributed to the Tanna Rabbi Nosson HaBavli, teacher of Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Tarfon, and Rabbi Yishmael.

Shankara

However, recent scholarship doubts that the text was written by Shankara.

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.