#sword of shannara

[killldeer]

Flight to the Mermidon

[joncronshawauthor]

Terry Brooks and the Evolution of the Fantasy Genre

In the grand melee of fantasy literature, one sword struck a chord (or a nerve, depending on who you ask) that echoed throughout the genre – Terry Brooks‘ “The Sword of Shannara”. This 1977 novel wasn’t just a book; it was a declaration, a statement that fantasy was here to stay, and it didn’t mind borrowing a cup of sugar (or a whole pantry) from its neighbours. A Not-So-Distant Mirror: Echoes…

[dandelionsandderivatives]

Interestingly enough, Sword of Shannara got this one right. Aragorn-with-the-serial-number-filed-off (Balinor? Is that his name?) certainly has a role to play, but it's Shea Ohmsford (I think that's his last name), who's basically a hybrid of Luke Skywalker and Frodo Baggins, who must save the world in the end.

(I haven't read this in years, but that's how I remember it.)

I think the reason so many LOTR ripoffs fail is because they make their Aragorn analogue the main character, when the entire point of Aragorn is that he’s “the person the villains think is the main character, but is Not.”

Aragorn seems like a traditional King Arthur style hero— he has huge Main Character Energy because he’s supported by destiny, by bloodline, by all these magic artifacts and prophecies, and etc etc. Frodo and Sam are Just Some Guys. Aragorn recognizes that Sauron understandably thinks he’s the main hero of this story ….and he pretends to believe it too, spending the entire series using himself as a diversion to prevent Sauron from seeing Frodo and Sam.

Aragorn’s whole thing is that knows he seems like the Main Hero of this legend to people who don’t know better —- but he also knows that he isn’t, and that his role is just to keep Sauron’s eye on him in order to protect the people around him.

And it works! Sauron is so fixated on defeating his Legendary Destined Archenemy with Extreme Main Character Energy that he completely overlooks the two ordinary little guys who were the real threat to him all along.

[iwasmadetobeasoldier]

My bestest friend in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD has let me borrow The Sword of Shannara trilogy and so far, I say its a 7/10. Here are my reasons:

Real quick tho, I'm halfway thru The Elfstones of Shannara(2nd book) and just FYI

The first book is pretty much like an epic fanfiction of Lord of the Rings summed up.

Its very well written in the battle/fight sequences

The characters are fun and are vastly different

Balinor is THE BEST 🥰🥰🥰

ITS A HUGE BOOK AND I LOVE IT

Con: Some sequences could have been better

All in all, I'm enjoying it and cannot wait to move on to The Wishsong of Shannara.

[389]

Sword of Shannara

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

The Sword of Shannara by The Brothers Hildebrandt

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[itachi86]

allanon should have used his magic to make the skull disappear or something

[killldeer]

terry brooks you cannot introduce a guy wearing this outfit and have him pine over his best friend for six hundred pages and have me believe he is anything but the most bisexual man on the planet

[joncronshawauthor]

The Ten Coolest Fantasy Weapons: From Excalibur to Glamdring

Fantasy fiction is full of incredible weapons as diverse as the stories and characters that wield them. From enchanted swords to powerful wands, these weapons have captured the imagination of readers for decades. In this post, you’ll discover the ten coolest weapons in fantasy fiction. 1. “Excalibur” from Arthurian legends. The legendary sword of King Arthur, said to have been gifted to him…

[theeemeraldstar]

I wanna sleep bc I have to get up for work in 2 and a half hours, but to sleep I need to put either music or an audiobook on quietly… and well music is giving me the big sad rn, so audiobook right? But I can’t decide which 😭

Foundation? Wool? Leviathan Wakes? Mythos? The Sword of Shannara? Too many options 😵‍💫

[sparrownnax]

honestly the sword of shannara is great because flick and shea learn about Shea's royalty and then not even a day later Flick is making fun of him.

"royal blood is cheap stuff these days" babygirl.

[lonely-aesthetic]

"The grayness of dawn passed slowly into the grayness of midday" - Terry Brooks, the Sword of Shannara

[mrkapao]

“Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.”

- Terry Brooks ‘The Sword of Shannara Trilogy: The Sword of Shannara’

[theoakleafpancake]

The Ohmsford siblings are another version of the Avatar cycle

**And the Leah companion

[tlaquetzqui]

Oof the House of the Dragon Valyrian script is, um…it’s not good. Between this and the Shiväisith in Thor: The Dark World I think we need to admit David Peterson is not a graphic designer. The weird serifs on both, like, I don’t know, maybe Peterson likes the font Exocet even more than I do.

Also all his scripts from Defiance (I think only conlangers remember that show, which shows how good he is at his actual job) just look like generic South Asian scripts. Seriously, put any of those on a can of coconut milk and see how long it takes before someone notices it’s fictional.

You need to hire a graphic designer to work with your linguist.

(Actually one of his old scripts, the one based on pictographs he mentions and shows some samples of in The Art of Language Invention, the one with the swordfish glyph, had some graphic design chops, but something seems to get lost when he transitions from stylized pictograms to phonograms.)