The Sword of Shannara is the first book in the Shannara
chronicles. It tells the story of Shea who is the last of a long line of Elvish
warriors and the only one able to wield the magical elf stones. He is recruited
by a mysterious druid to find the Sword of Shannara and end the power of
darkness over the land. The book is quite good, but you can defiantly see the
influence of Lord of the Rings. We even have our wizard like figure “die” while
falling off a bridge fighting a shadow monster! But where Lord of the Rings
takes place in a mythical past, Shannara takes place in a post-apocalyptic
landscape. A land where the apocalypse was so long ago that no one remembers
what the world was like before the break down of society; it is not even written down in the history
books. Magic has crept back into the world and we have returned to a dark
mythic world view. It is an interesting concept, and Brooks does a good job of
exploring it.
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