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“I ask for what must be. You have the skills, the heart, the right, and the need to do what I have asked. Believe what I have told you. Do as I have said. Then will the Shadowen be destroyed.”

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[Image ID: Par Ohmsford, from the elbows up. The background behind him is contrasting shades of red. He is wearing a brown tunic over a darker, long-sleeved shirt with a blue cloak wrapped around his neck. He is looking to his right with a worried expression, one hand at his heart. He has light skin, greenish eyes, and blonde curly hair reaching down past his chin. His ears are pointed. A red light creeps up from the bottom, the light reflecting in his eyes. There is gold border with text on either side of him, reading from left side to right: “Par Ohmsford, bearer of the Wishsong’s promise, I charge you with recovering the Sword of Shannara—Only through the Sword can the truth be revealed.” /End ID]

[Image ID: Wren Elessedil, from the elbows up. The background behind her is contrasting shades of teal. She is wearing a purple shirt, dark belt with gold platings in the middle, and a red cloak that covers part of her left arm. A black arm brace covers her right wrist/hand and she is holding a leather pouch by the strings. She has tan skin, hazel eyes, and ashy blonde hair, curly and cut short. Her ears are pointed. A light blue light is glowing around her from the bottom, reflecting in her eyes as well. There is a gold border with text on either side of her. Reading from left side to right, it says: “Wren, child of hidden, forgotten lies, yours is a charge of equal importance—Find the Elves and return them to the world of men.” /End ID]

[Image ID: Walker Boh, from the elbows up. The background behind him is contrasting shades of blue. He wears a dark green, loose-fitted tunic with a brown cloak around his shoulders. His dark hair is long and slightly wavy, and he has a short beard. He has brown eyes and pale skin. His right sleeve is empty and cut short. His left arm is cradled close to his chest, his hand curled up as if holding something. His ears are slightly pointed. A dark blue light creeps up him from below, reflecting in his eyes. Around him is a golden border with text on either said. Reading from left side to right: “Walker Boh, you of no belief, seek that belief - and the understanding necessary to sustain it—Search out disappeared Paranor and restore the Druids.” /End ID]

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You think at one point Shea asked one of his new elf pals in Arborlon if they knew his dad and then they sarcastically asked if he knew their man friend back at him?

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Sometimes you just gotta accept you are in a small and very niche Fandom corner because you will be having incomprehensible no-shape- only-feel ship emotions at 1:30 in the AM and just have to...sit with them, I guess.

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You’re the only kind touch I’ve known all my days in this land.

Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022 - ) 1.01: A Shadow of the Past

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Oh dude it SO looks like them - the vibe is right on. 

@ride-a-dromedary @shannara @eventine-elessedill

So, I'm accidentally tagging someone twice, but look at this card and tell me that's not Allanon, Brin and Rone from Wish. Didn't happen in the book, but sure looks like it could have been!

From the Druid Craft Tarot. The authors names escapes me.

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I am once again demanding Netflix pick up the rights to do a limited series Shannara show based on FKoS. 

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the way this actually made me snort

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Menion Leah: Just found out my birthday is on the same day I was born, life is crazy.

(via incorrectshannaraquotes)

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/29695179/chapters/73021602

Have I just lost my dignity in front of tumblr? Probably. Do I care? Eh. Not at the moment.

This thing up there is my first longfic and it is basically a retelling of The Shannara chronicles show, season 2, in a way that it is slightly more faithful to the books. That’s what the power of disappointing adaptations does to you. Adding original characters will probably make this look like a 11-year-old wrote it (ironically enough I started a fanfiction on The sword of Shannara at 11, original characters created by my preteen self included, and while I do not dare re-reading it I am sure that I at least managed to keep Eventine in character, unlike some people…), but you know what, I put all my love in this thing and I am proud of it. It may not live up to the expectations but I tried.

Tagging @ride-a-dromedary because they gave me the idea and I promised I would write this almost six months ago and @imjustalonesomewriter because they gave me some very precious advice on how to write a longfic

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Hi, I hope I am not bothering you, I am just... overflowing. Have you read Witch Wraith yet? I finished it ten minutes ago and I think it is one of my favourites in the entirety of Shannara so far

Of course you’re not bothering me! I haven’t read the Witch Wraith in a while, though I do recall vaguely what happens (I need to catch up with my re-read 100%). I’m really happy that it’s become one of your favourites!

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It's no secret that I'm not thrilled with MTV/Spike's adaptation of the Shannara series (which is an understatement), but man, I miss the hype that surrounded Shannara for a hot minute and the anticipation of having a new episode to watch every week.

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Just to know, is the Warlock Lord also called the Lord of Deceit (or similar) in English or is it just the translation in my country? Because Lord of Deceit sounds much better to me

Hmm...as far as I can recall, he's never referred to as the Lord of Deceit in the books, or anything officially other than Warlock Lord or Brona occasionaly, but I could be remembering wrong!

Wouldn't be surprised if it was a translation change. Lord of Deceit sounds cool, though! Maybe different species in the Four Lands have their own names for him, that'd be neat.

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*pops out of the floor boards* I heard someone calling for me - here I am. And I do have some thoughts about Arion, actually, though I would say that I would have to agree with you in saying that Arion doesn’t really get a whole lot of significant “screen time” in the book to get a really great picture of him, but - 

Arion is what I would call your “standard high fantasy elf”. He’s snobby and proud and headstrong. He insists on formalities as a crown prince and on elevated respect from non-elves. He very much is the “elfs are better than people” type (this is pushed even farther in the computer game. He is distainful of “half-breeds” and insistant on the power of the elven armies, but how canon you consider that is up in the air). He’s even described as your traditional “tall and fair”, as opposed to Ander’s “short and dark”. Arion in book, I would argue, is the kind of elf that explains where elf stereotypes come from. 

He’s also the classic older sibling: dad’s favourite (according to Ander), athletic, handsome and “charismatic” (though I do wonder what Ander’s threshhold for charismatic is, since most of the time Arion speaks he’s kinda being a dick). He’s stubborn and set in stone and impatient and reckless. If he believes something to be true he cannot be moved, and this clouds any good sense he has.

I would say, though, that while Arion is more so on the haughty and generally mean spirited elf side, I think part of that has to do with his personality being generally proud, and the other part is that he’s even MORE like that now becausef of the death of Aine. Aine’s death scrambled a lot of things for the Elessedils and hurt a lot of feelings in different ways, but I feel like it may have hurt Arion the most because he - at the end - perhaps feels as though he lost the most (Because it cost him Amberle - she didn’t turn to him for comfort she turned to Ander, which then cost him Ander because he was jealous, etc.)

We get glimpses a softer Arion from time to time, but not in great detail. He checks in with his father and seems genuinely concerned after him. Aine was described as his “beloved brother” (extremely so - it seemed like Aine was most likely Arion’s favourite). He and Ander were apparently close before Aine had died, and he was fond of Amberle before she chose Ander over him. He also seems gentle towards Lessa - a guard who attempts to court him in the computer game - which kinda skews his looking down his nose at non-royalty thing. 

I think at the end of the day, Arion is a bitter person. Brooks says as much several times: 

“There was great bitterness within the Crown Prince, much of it caused by the obvious hurt that this girl had brought to the King”

Ander genuinely seems to want to make up with Arion and make him see reason, which to me suggests that he’s not completely irredeemable as a person and I feel like there’s more to explore about Arion pre-Aine death. 

I think really at the core of it all, Arion is a deeply hurt individual who - like his father and brother  - does not deal with his emotions in a healthy way. Unlike Ander and Eventine, though, he is incapable of letting his bitterness and hurt go. He keeps it festering inside of him and lashes out, driving the rest of his family away from him. I think, if nothing else, that makes for an interesting character that could be further explored. 

I feel like the show took these characteristics and amped them up to eleven, so much so that Arion came across as almost completely unlikable imo.  

Hi, I am very sorry to come out of the blue like this and I hope I am not bothering you but this came to my mind. Any thoughts on Arion Elessedil? I loved him in the book but I feel I am the only one

Hi!! You’re not bothering me at all, I adore getting asks! 

That said, I actually don’t have that many thoughts - it’s been a while since I reread teos and honestly I remember by biggest impression of Arion was that I just kinda...wanted to know more about him? When I get to teos on my reread I’ll  revisit this ask and pay closer attention to him (and if I don’t remember, feel free to remind me!) 

I’m also going to give a preliminary tag/open invite to comment to @ride-a-dromedary bc I know she has many thoughts abt the Elessedils 

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ok but i would absolutely LOVE to hear about (or even read?? :D) your fkos master's thesis were you inclined to share....

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Okay so I’d have to dig up a copy of it in order to share it (idk where it actually got to tbh), but the baseline in layman's terms was essentially a reading of the book using queer theory (and generalized analysis of the inherent queer spaces within high-fantasy in general), specifically using a theory put forward in regards to LotR (because try finding any sort of scholarship in regard to Shannara I dare you - except you can’t because I literally tried) as a backbone - which indicated that same-sex relationships in these stories are queered when the author or interpreter takes care in cultivating “comphet” romances in parallel to other relationships (essentially, when you begin to romanticize comphet relationships that were not previously romanticized, you, in turn, bring the question up as to why one relationship is seen as romantic while the other is not - even if written or portrayed in the exact same way. Spoiler alert: literally nothing is different between them)

It brought forward a question concerning the use of what I call the “suspiciously similar sibling” trope and the concept of the incomplete love triangle. 

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Hi, sorry to write out of the blue but I had to share my irrational wrath. I am rewatching the series to prepare for that thing I wanted to write about how to fix it. The way they destroyed Eventine character (and mostly everything else, but what they did to him is unforgivable) broke my spirit.

It broke mine too, friend. It broke mine too

They just consistently did him dirty over and over again even after they killed him off and I was NOT here for it, fam. 

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Keith Parkinson art